![]() ![]() Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks Reprint edition (August 15, 2017).It is these individual stories, like the ones Willner tells in Forty Autumns that help inspire us. ![]() In a nation that stands divided due to ideology and discord, it’s important to look at lessons about division (and uniting) from our not-so distant history. Nina Willner paints a picture of this tragic occurrence and shares the stories of five women and how they were reunited once the wall came down. Forty Autumns is a memoir that adds to the narrative of families torn apart by the Iron Curtain. A couple of my favorite movies – Goodbye Lenin and Das Versprechen – offer treatments of this time period. ![]() In 1989, the wall came down, but until then, there were some moving stories that surrounded those who were torn apart due to the Berlin Wall. ![]()
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