01759cam a2200313 i 4500 643862073 TxAuBib 20230208120000.0 140506s2015||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2014008011 9781455557950 hardback 1455557951 hardback TxAuBib rda Baxter, Greg,. Munich Airport : a novel / Greg Baxter. New York : Twelve, 2015. 258 pages ; 24 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier "An American living in London receives a phone call from a German policewoman telling him that his sister, Miriam, has been found dead of starvation in her Berlin apartment. Three weeks later the man, his father, and an American Consular official named Trish find themselves in the bizarre surroundings of a fogbound Munich Airport, where Miriam's coffin is set to be loaded onto a commercial jet an returned to America. Greg Baxter's astonishing novel tells the story of these three people over the course of several weeks, as they wait for Miriam's body to be released, sift through her possessions, and try to piece together the events that led to her awful death. An unflinching look at family, loneliness, desperation, and regret, MUNICH AIRPORT marks the establishment of an important literary voice in Greg Baxter"-- Provided by publisher. 20230208. Brothers and sisters Fiction. Families Fiction. FICTION / Literary. FICTION / Family Life. FICTION / Psychological. Psychological fiction.