Wunderland / Jennifer Cody Epstein / 367 pages

This is a story of three women, Renate Baur, Ilse von Fisher, and Ilse's daughter Ava.  The story is told from Germany in the 1930s and 1940s to the United States in the 1970s to 1989.  Ilse and Renate are close childhood friends growing up in Germany in the 1930s when thew Nazis were coming into power.  Their friendship is split when it is revealed that Renate's father is Jewish.  The girls grow apart as their lives take different paths.  The reader follows Ilse as she becomes part of the Nazi youth movement and Renate as she and her family are forced to change how they live with the continuous rules for the Jews from the Nazi party.  Ilse and Renate continue to cross paths and there are consequences to each of their lives.  Renate is the only member of her family able to get out of Germany when her uncle in the United States sponsors her to immigrate.  Fast forward to the end of the war and Ilse is picking up her daughter, Ava, from a German orphanage.  The story is told from the perspective of each of the women jumping around in the different time periods.  The lives of these three women are intertwined to the very end of the story.  For me it was a fascinating book that told a World War II story from different perspectives.