The deadwood beetle

By Mylène Dressler, Mylène Dressler

Subjects: Netherlands, fiction, Dutch Americans, Retirees, Large type books, Fiction, historical, general, College teachers, Fiction, College teachers, fiction, Retirement, Reminiscing in old age, History, Fiction, psychological, New york (n.y.), fiction

Description: "Tristan Martens, a retired entomologist, is shaken by the discovery of his mother's sewing table in a New York antique shop. He hasn't seen it since he was a boy in Holland, but he vividly remembers the last time he did. Only Tristan knows the painful truth behind the scrawled - and misunderstood - inscription on the bottom of the table, and he embarks on a scheme to acquire it from the shop owner, Cora Lowenstein, who insists it's not for sale.". "But as their lives become entangled, Tristan must make a choice. Can he tell Cora the truth? Begun in deceit, their relationship and Tristan's salvation hinge on his willingness to confront and finally confess the terrible secrets of his family's past."--BOOK JACKET.