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Authors: Michael Wallace

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“Kitchen work doesn’t sound so bad.”

“You know, he’s looking for another dishwasher. I could introduce you.”

Gabriela was suspicious enough of the whole arrangement that she started to say no, but then thought about the Germans who made up the restaurant’s clientele. Could it be a new place to search?

The truth was, she’d run out of places to look. Over the last two years, she’d worn holes in her shoes walking back and forth to the German embassy where she’d queue in the drizzling rain only to be turned away. She’d written stacks of letters to Vichy officials, to work-camp officers, to Topf representatives. To anyone and everyone who might have news of her father. No word of him or the man who’d arrested him.

And food. The restaurant would mean a break from the ever-present gnawing, that feeling of being eaten alive from the inside.

“Hey, come over here,” Christine said. “I want to show you something.”

The something turned out to be the art Christine had discovered in an outdoor shop, tucked behind an armoire that smelled like mothballs. The paintings should have been hanging in some gallery, rather than stuffed into a dented metal footlocker. By the time they finished admiring the art, Gabriela had decided to take Christine’s advice and stop by Le Coq Rouge, to see if this Monsieur Leblanc needed help.

“That’s great,” Christine said. “It’ll be so much better than surrendering your treasures to thieves in the flea markets. You’ll see.”

“But in the kitchen, you understand.”

“The what?”

“Working in the kitchen,” Gabriela repeated. She spoke as firmly as possible. “I’ll wash dishes, but I’m not going to be a hostess.”

“Oh, that. No one will ever make you. I promise.”

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