Yesknopemaybe reviewed Jennifer Teege’s My Grandfather Would Have Shot Me a few weeks ago and was right when she said the premise would be hard to resist. I checked my local library and found the audiobook available for immediate check out. While this was a big change from cheery Patton Oswalt and the Harry Potter series the narration was beautiful and powerful (with added correct pronunciation of German and Polish words!) Jennifer Teege is a mixed race German woman, her birth mother was German and her father was […]
The kindle version is only $2.51 right now
3.5 stars. The premise of My Grandfather Would Have Shot Me is hard to resist. Though adopted as a child, Jennifer Teege had some contact with her biological mother and grandmother. As a young adult, she spent time in Israel, learning their language, making friends with the people, and even volunteering with Holocaust victims who wanted to speak German again. Imagine her surprise when she browsed a library later in life and saw her biological mother in a book about Amon Goeth, the notoriously vicious […]