Affinity Konar
Affinity Konar was raised in California and has an MFA in fiction from Columbia University. She's worked as a tutor, copywriter, and editor of children's educational materials. She currently lives in Los Angeles with her dog, Linus.
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Affinity Konar was raised in California and has an MFA in fiction from Columbia University. She's worked as a tutor, copywriter, and editor of children's educational materials. She currently lives in Los Angeles with her dog, Linus.
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I did enjoy the writing of this book, even though I was horrified by many of the events depicted.I was interrupted in the reading of this book by exams. Up till then I found I was enchanted by the twin experience, in spite of the terrible setting. When I returned to the book the spell was broken and...
I don't know what to say except it was a beautifully written novel given the subject matter. It's never easy to write about this particular period in history and never will be. However at least what an author can do is make it readable and make it a good story worthwhile to read. You really do fee...
To be a mischling carries the connotation of being a half-blood, a mongrel. And so with this epithet we are introduced to Stasha and Pearl, twin girls with blond ringlets and Jewish heritage whose best protection before the cattle cars was their fertile imaginations, their Zeyde’s intellectual games...
A special thank you to NetGalley for an ARC in exchange for an honest review.Hauntingly lyrical, and shattering, Mischling is a recount of some of the Holocaust horrors that children in Auschwitz were subjected to at the hands of Dr. Joseph Mengele. Interested in twins, the emotionally stunted Menge...
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