WALLFLOWER
(English-language working title)
Rowohlt Verlag, 2009
160 pages
Hardcover
German publishing date: Late August 2009
Wallflower is four hours in the life of New Yorker Molly Lenzfeld, 16 years old, introverted, six feet tall, size 12 shoe. It’s late November 1989, two weeks after the fall of the Berlin wall. On a short metro and subway ride to her mother’s birth house in Berlin’s eastern sector, she meets up with East German wildflower Mick Maier, 19. It’s love at first sight and for both a journey into an unknown land, into the labyrinth of Berlin’s underground world, a fertile terrain in which to discover each other, the wonder of love, and the mystery of Germany’s divided past.