I finished a book I found mesmerizing. Einstein's Girl is a fictional account of Berlin in 1933, set in a psychiatric hospital as the Nazis are gearing up to pass a law to exterminate all "defective" citizens. Einstein is still in Germany but about to leave for England and then America, and he is abandoning his younger son, who is in another psychaitric facility, and his unacknowledged daughter born before he married his first wife, and adopted away to save shame. These two children of Einstein are true, not fiction, and the complex feelings and sufferings of both are realistic and haunting. The psychiatrist who is featured is humane and progressive, but he is battling a culture that is sadistic. I couldn't put it down - well I did, but couldn't wait to get back to it. It's a paperback.
Now I'm really reading something weird. I haven't read Stephen King since I was in my early thirties, but I'm reading the new book 11/23/63. It's a fun idea, to go back in time and try to change history, and he's a good writer, so he makes it gripping and easy to read.
But for today, I'm going out to lunch with a friend and see a movie about Eames. It should be interesting.
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