Two midwives, a little girl and an East Frisian village caught in the maelstrom of time An unusual, and also unusually beautifully told, novel about a childhood and an East Frisian village during the upheavals of the 1960s. There, where it's harsh and windy, sometimes bitterly cold, and where a vast sky arches over everything, Greta was born in 1959. Not in a hospital—it was too far—but with the help of the village midwife in her grandparents' farm laborer's cottage. In this region bordering the Netherlands, the girl grew up, integrated into the lives of her ancestors, and yet changes were afoot—slowly but steadily. Roads were paved, televisions and washing machines arrived, a moped and eventually a car were acquired, and indeed, the lives of women in particular changed: births, motherhood, family—everything was subject to transformation. Katrin de Vries vividly and atmospherically portrays how the small world of an East Frisian village was a vast one. A journey into the past that makes it clear that change represents both progress and loss. New product