“… a lyrical excavation of silence, memory, and the hidden traumas that echo across generations.”

—Brooke Shannon

“A memoir of unbearable honesty about a German woman reckoning with war, family, and forgiveness.”

Announcement of the winner of the 2023 Restless Books Prize for New Immigrant Writing.

“…Coenen artfully connects her family’s personal experiences to larger traumas of the period. The result is a poetic and deeply felt exploration of the long shadow cast by the war.”

“A deep and moving memoir-in-essays".”

Amy Zimmerman from Chatham Bookstore recommends Unexploded Ordnance as a companion book to the novel The Safekeep by Yael Van Der Wouden. Starting at min. 16.