One of the first clues Christine Kuehn had that the shroud that enveloped her father’s past wasn’t accidental was a reunion with her father’s sister, Ruth.
When she questioned her aunt about her paternal grandparents, Ruth snapped, “You have a good life. You don’t want to ruin it with the past.”
It would take many more years before Kuehn and her husband Mark learned that Kuehn's grandparents and their daughter Ruth were accomplished Nazi spies based in Oahu who helped the Japanese attack Pearl Harbor.
Kuehn writes in the epilogue of her new book, “I still wake up in the middle of the night with an overwhelming sense of dread knowing that my family played a key role in the tragedy at Pearl Harbor and there is nothing I can do to change that.”
Are you convinced poetry is some code you just can’t crack? In her new book, “Fear Less,” former Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith says poems are like cars: they’re meant to take you somewhere.
Allegra Goodman's new novel is called “This Is Not About Us,” but critic Maureen Corrigan says that title is coy: Readers are bound to see aspects of themselves and their families in these pages.
