Name: Roswell Reads presents historical fiction author Jennifer Coburn
Start: 2025-02-01T14:00:00-05:00
End: 2025-02-01T15:30:00-05:00
Location: Roswell Library

Roswell Reads presents historical fiction author Jennifer Coburn

Hear author Jennifer Coburn talk about The Girls of Glimmer Factory, a historical novel about the Nazi breeding program and Nazi propaganda.
About this Event

In Girls of the Glimmer Factory, Jennifer Coburn brilliantly illustrates the need to combat propaganda as it threatens to gloss over evils. This life-or-death fight for truth is written in shimmering prose. A deeply-researched, historical novel, it gives a compelling literary voice to those impacted the most by Adolf Hitler’s haunting and ironically dehumanizing scheme to generate racially pure infants. Vividly researched and memorably written, the book offers an original and unflinching look at loyalty, choices, consequences and redemption and is acutely relevant to our present day.

Drawing on meticulous wartime research and inspired by the astonishing true story of the Nazi “show camp,” THE GIRLS OF THE GLIMMER FACTORY is an illuminating tale of resistance and the dangers of propaganda, from celebrated historical fiction author Jennifer Coburn.

Hannah is a prisoner at Theresienstadt, a “model camp" established by the Nazis to film propaganda films to convince the world that Jewish people are being treated well. Hilde works for the ministry of propaganda, and she believes she can renew confidence in the Nazi cause by creating a documentary about the model camp. But when she arrives, she recognizes her childhood friend, Hannah, who has her own motives: To show the world the truth about the Nazis and the atrocities being committed at the camps.

Heart-wrenching and suspenseful and based on an actual Nazi propaganda film, THE GIRLS OF THE GLIMMER FACTORY is a fascinating and unforgettable look at the role of propaganda in World War II, as well as a poignant and evocative story of friendship and resistance.

JENNIFER COBURN is the author of Cradles of the Reich, a historical novel about three very different women living at a Nazi Lebensborn breeding home at the start of World War ll. She has also published a mother-daughter travel memoir, We'll Always Have Paris, as well as six contemporary women's novels. Additionally, Jennifer has contributed to five literary anthologies, including A Paris All Your Own.

Jennifer lives in San Diego. When Jennifer is not going down historical research rabbit holes, she volunteers with So Say We All, a live storytelling organization, where she is a performer, producer, and performance coach. She is also an active volunteer with Reality Changers, a nonprofit that supports low-income high school students in becoming the first in their families to attend college.