When Jennifer Teege, a German-Nigerian woman, happens to pluck a library book from the shelf, she discovers a horrifying fact: Her grandfather was Amon Goeth, the vicious Nazi commandant depicted by Ralph Fiennes in Schindler’s List. The more Teege reads about Goeth, the more certain she becomes: If her grandfather had met her—a black woman—he would have killed her. Teege’s discovery sends her, at age 38, on a quest to fully comprehend her family’s haunted history—and her own identity.
