Loving Frank by Nancy Horan

★★★★

"Before Mamah came over to Germany, Mattie had said to her, 'What will you do if Frank returns to his wife?  You'll have nothing.'  But Mamah felt now that if that came to be, she had more than nothing.  She had whatever it was inside herself that made her survive.  The past few months had boiled her down to her very essence.  All the rest, it seemed, had just floated away.