Serena

by Ron Rash

Mrs. Pemberton said absolutely not, then turned the conversation to a tract of brazilwood in Pernambuco, which she hoped to purchase with the help of a West German tractor company.

In Serena, I mention that in Brazil her last business partnership is with a “West German tractor company.” The company is the Mengele tractor company, owned by the relatives of the notorious Nazi Joseph Mengele. During the decades Joseph Mengele hid out in Brazil, the company was in contact with him, so it’s clear he and Serena are in cahoots. That Serena would end up with a Nazi as a last business partner seemed appropriate.