All Things That
Deserve to Perish

The year is 1896, and Elisabeth (‘Lisi’) von Schwabacher, the gifted daughter of a Jewish banker, returns home to Berlin from three years of piano study in Vienna. Though her thoughts are far from matrimony, she is pursued by two noblemen impressed as much by her stunning wealth as by her prodigious intellect and musical talent.

About Dana

Dana Mack is proud to announce the publication of her first work of fiction, All Things That Deserve To Perish: A Novel of Wilhelmine Germany. Ms. Mack is the author of two non-fiction books: The Assault on Parenhood: How Our Culture Undermines the Family (Simon & Schuster) and The Book of Marriage: The Wisest Answers to the Toughest Questions (Eerdmans).

A vivid and incisive historical novel. Mack's prose often soars ...

— Publishers Weekly Booklife