A review by sullimca
Belonging: A German Reckons with History and Home by Nora Krug

4.0

I was nervous throughout the book as to what point she would drive home in the end. We see her struggle with what it means to be a part of a certain culture, and how that influences who you are and what you call home. She realizes that history is a tough pill to swallow, and so she scrambles through archives and family interviews to find a glass of water to get it down. History isn’t just the events that have happened (that's just a timeline), but it's how we interpret them and let it influence our future, and I think that was her purpose in how she describes her pregnancy at the end as being unconscious and pure, as a way of emphasizing that inherited guilt is valid, but it's a taught mechanism by those before us to help us comprehend rights and wrongs rather than have it be a direct implication.