The Patron Saint of Pregnant Girls

Three mothers are brought together through tragedy and rebirth in this “deeply compassionate . . . surprisingly sunlit tale” set in nineteenth century Germany ( The Washington Post ). In the summer of 1878, the Ludwig Zirkus arrives on Nordstrand in Germany, to the delight of the island’s people. But after the show, a Hundred-Year Wave roars from the Nordsee and claims three young children. Three mothers are on the beach when it happens: Lotte, whose children are lost; Sabine, a Z