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';A graceful, attentive, and beautiful debut.' George SaundersFor fans of Meg Wolitzer and Maggie Shipstead: a sweeping debut novel following an American artist who returns to Germanywhere she fell in love and had a child decades earlierto confront her past at her former mother-in-law's funeral It's 1971 when Louise leaves Oregon for Dusseldorf, a city grappling with its nation's horrific recent history, to study art. Soon she's embroiled in a scene dramatically different from the one at home, thanks in large part to Dieter, a mercurial musician. Their romance ignites quickly, but life gets in the way: an unplanned pregnancy, hasty marriage, the tense balance of their creative ambitions, andfinally, fatallya family secret that shatters Dieter, and drives Louise home. But in 2008 she's headed to Dieter's mother's funeral. She never returned to Germany, and has since remarried, had another daughter, and built a life in Oregon. As she flies into the heart of her past, she reckons with the choices she made, and the ones she didn't, just as her familycurrent and formermust consider how Louise's life has shaped their own, for better and for worse. Exquisitelybalanced, expansive yet wonderfully intimate,Lifelinesexplores the indelible ties of family; the shape art, history, and nationality give to our lives; and the ways in whichwe are forever evolving,with each step we take, with each turn of the Earth.