Those Who Save Us, by Jenna Blum

This is a very compelling story about a woman professor researching her German heritage. While the professor learns many stories from Germans in her community, we learn the story our main character does not know - her own mother's story from a small German village in WWII. The misconceptions and misunderstandings between mother and daughter were realistic and, then, exacerbated by the extenuating circumstances of the mother's painful history. I haven't often read a WWII story from the perspective of a German, and this was a very good one. Probably a read geared more toward women, but not total chick lit. Recommend.