Contrary to what the title suggests, men form a void in Annika Reich’s novel – they rarely appear, but are mostly absent. Instead, the author tells a story of a family along the fates of women, generation after generation. Why do the men disappear? Only the grandmother, the head of the family, knows this. She is silent. Annika Reich tells of power mechanisms in families that can affect not only men, of betrayal and what it means to stand by each other.

Moderation: Corinna Gerhards

In collaboration with
the Stadtbücherei Delmenhorst