The Bookbinder's Secret

In the starving Amsterdam winter of 1944, Mieke Meijer carries soup down seven coal-dusted steps to the friend hidden behind a wall of old newspapers, then stays past curfew to print the forbidden poems that friend writes. Now a collaborationist inspector has moved his desk beside her returns counter, and her brother sits in his cell. Forty years later in Michigan, Mieke mends books in silence, until a stubborn young refugee and a famous poet's visit force the past open.