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Hitchhiking: Twelve German Tales - Gabriele Eckart
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"...The narrator is usually a woman from East Germany, often in college, who steps beyond the boundaries of her life as she gets to know a poor, elderly woman on her street; works on a construction site or as a street sweeper, visits aging, eccentric relatives; learns of an uncle's past transgression; has an aborted relationship with a man from West Germany. While there are moments of true connection between individuals, each of the main characters remains isolated by an inability to trust or by the divisions of class, gender, or age..."
(E.B., p. 100)