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Hitler and My Mother-in-Law is a riveting memoir that explores the intersection of truth-both familial and political-through the colorful and complex life of the author's mother-in-law. In a time like our own of intense propaganda and manipulation, the only WWII female correspondent who covered both theaters of war, Pat Hartwell identified Hitler from a pile of ashes for the US military, and the troops awarded her with a million-dollar painting from Hitler's study. Really? She was the only woman in the CBS news room, assistant to the head of the Office of War Information, VP of one of the largest public relations companies in the world, third in command of UNICEF where she convinced Matisse to provide artwork for free, editor of her own Arizona newspaper where she hustled nave art on the side, and eventually head of the Hawai'ian arts council, a state of extremely complex political and social stakeholders,where she left a legacy of preventing art fraud.Her story is a fascinating journey through history, art, and deception. The memoir delves into the art of invention and theshapeshiftingof memory and truth, interwoven with humorous yet profound moments. It examines the comical Soviet efforts to conceal Hitler's death, McCarthy's investigations, and the author's own struggle to compete with both her mother and her mother-in-law. Threaded throughout are insights into organizations that malign the word ""mother"" and, of course, plenty of mother-in-law jokes. With meticulous research and a unique perspective,Hitler and My Mother-in-Lawchallenges the boundaries of narrative honesty, offering a powerful exploration ofpropaganda, identity, and the personal reckoning that defines the art of memoir. It's agrippingmix of history, family,humor,and a biting reflection on the politics of truth-past and present.

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PRAISE FOR TERESE SVOBODA: ""One of our best writers.” —Karen Russell, author of Swamplandia! and Sleep Donation “One of the writers you would be tempted to read regardless of the setting of the period or the plot or even the genre.” —Bloomsbury Review “A true original.” —Emily St. John Mandel, author of Station Eleven and The Glass Hotel PRAISE FOR TERESE SVOBODA'S PREVIOUS WORKS: “Svoboda's prose is...stuffed to the brim — with invention, surprise and the sweaty mystery of whom we get tangled up with, and why.” —New York Times “Exquisite....[Svoboda] crafts singular depictions of her characters’ inner worlds.” —Publishers Weekly ""Call it amped-up in medias res, and take a moment to find your bearings. You have been gleefully tossed into the deep end.” —New York Times “Roxy and Coco is trademark Svoboda, where outsiders are the stars. As action-packed as the novel is, at the core is the deep love for a sibling, and in this case the love has grown for a millennium. A dazzling story that is compulsively readable and deeply relatable.” —Electric Lit

PRAISE FOR HITLER AND MY MOTHER-IN-LAW: ""What a bold, vibrant, and intensely original book this is."" —Joan Silber, author of Mercy ""Wit, imagination, and marked acumen about our on-going preoccupation with censorship, witch hunts, and truth-telling vs. fakery makes this provocative memoir a highly engaging read."" —Carolyn Burke, author of Lee Miller ""Highly researched, intimate, and always engaging, Svoboda’s memoir teaches us to appreciate both 'the contours of what you don’t know' and, more than that, 'the mysteries.'"" —Jehanne Dubrow, author of Civilians and Exhibitions: Essays on Art & Atrocity PRAISE FOR TERESE SVOBODA: ""One of our best writers.” —Karen Russell, author of Swamplandia! and Sleep Donation “One of the writers you would be tempted to read regardless of the setting of the period or the plot or even the genre.” —Bloomsbury Review “A true original.” —Emily St. John Mandel, author of Station Eleven and The Glass Hotel PRAISE FOR TERESE SVOBODA'S PREVIOUS WORKS: “Svoboda's prose is...stuffed to the brim — with invention, surprise and the sweaty mystery of whom we get tangled up with, and why.” —New York Times “Exquisite....[Svoboda] crafts singular depictions of her characters’ inner worlds.” —Publishers Weekly

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A Guggenheim fellow, Terese Svoboda is the author of 20 books. She has won the Bobst Prize in fiction, the Iowa Prize for poetry, an NEH grant for translation, the Graywolf Nonfiction Prize, a Jerome Foundation prize for video, the O. Henry award for the short story, and a Pushcart Prize for the essay. She is a three time winner of the New York Foundation for the Arts fellowship, and has been awarded Headlands, James Merrill, Hawthornden, Hermitage, Yaddo, MacDowell, Rowland, VCCA, Bogliasco, and Bellagio residencies. Her opera WET premiered at L.A.'s Disney Hall.

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