Unexploded Ordnance: What She Felt. What They Feared. How They Survived. What They Saw.

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Unexploded Ordnance: What She Felt. What They Feared. How They Survived. What They Saw. by Coenen, Catharina

Unexploded Ordnance: What She Felt. What They Feared. How They Survived. What They Saw.

$25.44

Unexploded Ordnance: What She Felt. What They Feared. How They Survived. What They Saw.

$25.44
Author: Catharina Coenen
Format: Paperback
Language: English

WINNER OF THE 2023 RESTLESS BOOKS PRIZE FOR NEW IMMIGRANT WRITING

In imaginative prose that interrogates the past with a poet's curiosity and a scientist's pen, Unexploded Ordnance seeks to answer how we are shaped by the stories we inherit.

After moving from Germany to the US to work as a professor of biology, Catharina Coenen takes up residence in a second language to voice the questions she could not ask at home. To what extent was her grandfather implicated in World War II? What exactly did her grandmother, mother, and aunt live through? And why are women's wartime stories so seldom told? Coenen peels back generational silences to walk alongside her grandmother, who comes of age during Hitler's rise to power, watches friends disappear one by one, and flees bombing raids with her tiny daughters. Weaving reflections on language, biology, queerness, art, and memory, Coenen moves between the personal and the universal with stunning honesty and elegance.



Author: Catharina Coenen
Publisher: Restless Books
Published: 10/28/2025
Pages: 288
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.65lbs
Size: 7.10h x 5.00w x 1.00d
ISBN: 9781632064059


Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 09/15/2025
Publishers Weekly 10/27/2025
Foreword 10/17/2025
Booklist 10/09/2025

About the Author
Coenen, Catharina: -

Catharina Coenen is a German immigrant to northwestern Pennsylvania, where she teaches biology at Allegheny College in Meadville. Her creative work is forthcoming or has recently appeared in The Southampton Review Online, Appalachian Heritage, Christian Science Monitor, and elsewhere.

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