"This intimate portrait of two brothers split by the Berlin Wall in 1961 feels like a parable, a warning, a mirror of our modern times." Daniel Nayeri, author of Everything Sad Is Untrue, Printz Award Winner
"A richly layered, complex historical novel that poses important questions and provides a chilling lens into a dark period of history." New York Times bestseling author Ruta Sepetys
"An excellent, nuanced piece of historical fiction." The Horn Book, starred review
"[Stamper's] portrayal of propaganda and how teens can easily fall prey to this kind of rhetoric is spot on." Booklist
Born in Germany and raised in New York City, Vesper Stamper writes and illustrates novels which tell, through words and pictures, stories of history's rhymes. Her debut illustrated YA novel, What the Night Sings, about two teens emerging from the Holocaust, was a National Book Award Nominee, National Jewish Book Award Finalist, and Sydney Taylor Book Award Winner. Vesper lives with her husband, filmmaker Ben Stamper, and her two teenagers, in the Northeast.