NEW YORK TIMES CRITICS' TOP BOOK OF 2021

All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days has been named a New York Times Critics’ Top Book of 2021. “Donner pieces together Mildred’s life from fragments, sifting through government archives, interviews, photographs, diaries and letters. Szalai called it an ‘astonishing’ book that conveys ‘what it felt like in real time to experience the tightening vise of the Nazi regime.’”

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Rebecca Donner