Maria Hummel is a novelist and poet. Her most recent novel, Still Lives, was a Reese's Book Club x Hello Sunshine pick and has been optioned for television and translated into multiple languages. She lives in Vermont with her husband and sons.
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Inspired by the stories told by her father about his German childhood and letters between her grandparents that were hidden in an attic wall for fifty years, Motherland is a novel that attempts to reckon with the paradox of the author's father—a pro... SEE MORE