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A novel about family and masculinity, and the question of whether we shape our own destiny - or whether our background and character inevitably shape us.

Jackie Thomae was born in 1972 and is a German journalist and writer. She is the author of a number of works of non-fiction, fiction, literary translations, audio and screen plays. Her debut novel Momente der Klarheit, was published in 2015. Her second novel, Bruder was on the shortlist for the German Book Prize in 2019 and was awarded the Dusseldorf Literature Prize in 2020. In 2021 she was awarded a sponsorship prize of the Lessing Prize of the Free State of Saxony. Her literary translations include Zusammenkunft from the English original, Assembly by Natasha Brown and in 2023, she wrote an audio play based on the novel, Girl Woman Other by Bernardine Evaristo. Born in Halle, Jackie grew up in Leipzig and Berlin where she currently resides.