In Conversation: On The Daughter’s Tale

Ojito, Mirta (Cuba) Periodista y escritora. Es autora de dos libros: El Mañana (Vintage Español) y La cacería (Vintage Español). En ambos trata temas de inmigración, uno de los temas que más la ocupo en una carrera periodística de más de 30 años. Ha trabajado en The Miami Herald, El Nuevo Herald y The New York Times, donde formó parte de un equipo que ganó el premio Pulitzer en 2001 por una serie de artículos sobre el tema racial en Estados Unidos. Además, durante más de nueve años fue profesora de periodismo en la Escuela de Estudios de postgrado de Periodismo en la Universidad de Columbia en New York. Actualmente trabaja para la cadena NBC en Telemundo en Miami. Participa en Mariel: un poco de historia, uno de los eventos por el cuadragésimo aniversario del Mariel.   Mirta Ojito is a Cuban-born author and journalist. She has written two nonfiction books, Finding Mañana: A Memoir of a Cuban Exodus, a book about her journey to the U.S. as a teenager in the Mariel boatlift, and Hunting Season: Immigration and Murder in an All-American Town. As a journalist, she worked at The New York Times, The Miami Herald and the Nuevo Herald. She was part of a group of New York Times reporters who shared the Pulitzer Prize for national reporting in 2001 for a series of articles about race in America. More recently, she was a member of the Telemundo team that won an Emmy for the coverage of

Armando Lucas Correa is an award-winning journalist, editor, and author. He is the author of the international bestseller The German Girl, which is now being published in thirteen languages. Based on true events, Correa’s The Daughter’s Tale (Atria Books) chronicles one of the most harrowing atrocities perpetrated by the Nazis during the war and a family’s saga of love, survival, and redemption. The dreams that Amanda Sternberg and her husband, Julius, had for their daughters are shattered when the Nazis descend on Berlin in 1939, burning down their beloved family bookshop and sending Julius to a concentration camp. Desperate to save her children, Amanda flees toward the south of France where is forced to make an impossible choice that will haunt her for the rest of her life. After Nazi forces arrive, Amanda finds herself in a labor camp where she must once again make a heroic sacrifice. The story then shifts to New York 2015, and eighty-year-old Elise Duval, a French Catholic who arrived in New York after World War II, receives news from a time and country that she forced herself to forget. The letters are from her mother, written in German during the war —and seven decades of secrets begin to unravel. BookPage called The Daughter’s Tale “A detailed, immersive chronicle of World War II’s tragedy, the power of love and the lengths to which a mother will go to save her children when there are no choices left. […]Correa starkly portrays the many horrors that