On Sale: May 4, 2027
Page Count: 528 pages
Publisher: Union Square & Co.
ISBN-13: 9781454972310

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A sweeping and suspenseful historical novel, based on the author’s relatives, about a family of Jewish tailors pulled into a covert wartime operation where every stitch could change the course of D-Day.

Vienna, 1938. Master tailor Rudi and fashion designer Irma are driven from their world of measurements, fabrics, and fittings when the Nazis take over their beloved city.

After the newlyweds are separated by war, Irma finds refuge in Scotland while Rudi is mysteriously recruited to Canada for his expertise in women’s tailoring. There, in hidden tunnels beneath Toronto’s Casa Loma, he crafts garments for Gisela, an undercover agent headed for occupied France. Behind enemy lines, she joins forces with Irma’s brother, Armin, whose work with the French Resistance tests his love and loyalty.

Meanwhile, Irma’s sister Hilda struggles to keep her daughter and mother alive as they navigate the politics and privation of the Łódź Ghetto.

When the balance of the world depends on the integrity of a single stitch, each member of this family of humble clothiers learns that they have a vital role to play in altering the fabric of history.

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Fiction Historical 20th Century World War Ii & Holocaust

Bess Winter Kosinec is a Canadian-American writer, originally from Toronto and currently based in Cincinnati, Ohio, where she is the Web and Media editor for The Cincinnati Review. Her work has received a Pushcart Prize and has appeared in The Kenyon Review, American Short Fiction, and elsewhere. Her collection of short fiction Machines of Another Era was published by Gold Wake Press in 2021. She has received fellowships from the Corporation of Yaddo and the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, as well as the Canada Council for the Arts and Stockholm Writers’ Festival. She teaches creative writing at Story Studio Chicago.