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Two Nights in Berlin
When Anna travels to Berlin to scatter her mother’s ashes on the grave of her Jewish fiancé who was killed during Kristallnacht in November 1938, she finally comes to understand her mother’s tragic past, and how it damaged her ability to truly love. As she learns more about that fateful night, her mother’s subsequent breakdown, and her escape to Canada to avoid punishment for destroying a Nazi banner, Anna arrives at a deeper understanding of her mother’s life. She also learns more about the hardships of her extended family members who remained in Germany, and how the Berlin Wall, which fell on November 9, 1989, had divided them both physically and ideologically.
Patricia McDermott
About the Author
Patricia McDermott has a long-standing personal connection to the city featured in her
first novel, Two Nights in Berlin. She has lived in the city and has family connections
there. Her novel reflects some of these personal relationships and explores the
historical significance of a Berlin where the Holocaust began, communism reigned and
subsequently ended with the fall of the Berlin Wall, the symbolic collapse of the Soviet
era.