“Pear Soup,” an excerpt from Unexploded Ordnance by Catharina Coenen It is late August of 1943. Elfriede and Anna are in Elisabethenpflege, an orphanage in Schönebürg, only ten miles from Biberach, where they and Lotte had lived with the stern landlady, and sixty miles from Tübingen, where their mother is now hospitalized at a Nazi-run […]