Mary Louise Wells presents her novel – Good Town

Her recent historical novel, Good Town, is based on her mother’s of coming of age memoir in Guttstadt, East Prussia – narrating the rise of Nazi Germany through World War II and its aftermath.

Josef Haupt, once a staunch opponent of Hitler, agrees to be a Third Reich official, enabling the horrors he once fought against. As the local Jewish community is sent to their deaths and his sons are drafted to fight in the war, the consequences of his choices ruin his family.

It’s a family story of complicity — of how an educated, Christian man becomes a cog in the Nazi machine, which ravages his family and homeland while his wife and children bear the brunt of his choices.

 “An evocative, engrossing depiction of the devastating choices and consequences of the World War II era.”~Kirkus Reviews

Mary Wells is a former environmental lawyer turned writer. Born in Kansas and raised in Texas, she lives in California with her husband, two children, and the family’s crazy rescue dog.