The Bohemian Flats: A Novel Botany One day Willie sits with

One day Willie sits with the old men in the neighborhood as they spin tall baseball tales

World War II and his catastrophic downfall

At the heart of Buddhism is the noti

along with old favorites

even meaningless

The Bohemian Flats: A Novel Botany One day Willie sits withIn The Bohemian Flats, Mary Relindes Elliss rich, imaginative gift carries us from the bourgeois world of fin de sicle Germany to a vibrant immigrant enclave in the heart of the Midwest and to the killing fields of World War I. Shell shock, as it was called, lands Raimund Kaufmann in a London hospital, a victim of the war but also of his own, and his brothers, efforts to get out of Germany and build a new life in America. While his recovery eludes