Jessica Shattuck

Three women, haunted by the past and the secrets they hold Set at the end of World War II, in a crumbling Bavarian castle that once played host to all of German high society, a powerful and propulsive story of three widows whose lives and fates become intertwined--an affecting, shocking, and ultimately redemptive novel from the author of the New York Times Notable Book The Hazards of Good Breeding. Amid the ashes of Nazi Germany's defeat, Marianne...

Donating sperm to his ex-girlfriend Jenny in order to assist her efforts to become a mother, Neil Banks initially signs away all paternity rights and subsequently shocks Jenny's privileged East coast community by showing up for the baby's christening.