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Join Anne Crystal for our Brown Bag Book Club to discuss Keeper of Lost Children by Sadeqa Johnson.
Inspired by the true story of journalist and activist Mabel Grammer, this sweeping historical novel follows three intertwined lives: Ethel Gathers, an Army wife in post-WWII Germany who discovers an orphanage full of mixed-race “Brown Babies” and sets out to find them loving homes; Ozzie Phillips, a Black soldier whose relationship with a German woman will echo for decades; and Sophia Clark, a teenager in 1960s Maryland whose acceptance to a prestigious boarding school leads her to an unraveling family secret. Moving between Germany and America across two decades, Johnson’s novel explores identity, forbidden love, and the long reach of war—and asks what happens to the children history tries to forget. A moving pick for readers who loved The House of Eve or Orphan Train.