Stromlinien

Enna and Jale grow up in the Altes Land, the Elbe marshlands south of Hamburg, living by the rhythm of the tides and counting the days until their mother Alea is released from prison. But when the day finally comes, it is not only Alea who disappears without a trace — Jale vanishes too.

Determined to find them, Enna searches the Altes Land, following a trail that forces her to confront her family's history and to reckon with who she has become in her sister's and mother's absence. Rebekka Frank's Stromlinien is a contemporary German young-adult novel about family fracture, guilt, and growing up in the shadow of a parent's incarceration, set against the flat, tidal landscape of northern Germany.