A review by anna_whitehead11
Marzahn, mon amour: Geschichten einer Fußpflegerin by Katja Oskamp

funny inspiring lighthearted reflective medium-paced

4.0

An amusing, heart-warming read: Oskamp has a mid-life crisis as her novel manuscripts are repeatedly rejected, so retrains as a podiatrist, and then heads to work in a clinic in Berlin’s Marzahn district at the basement of an old East Berlin plattenbau building. Each short chapter recounts an encounter with one of her clients, who she captures with all their quirks and oddities. A relatively easy read in simple German prose, but I did considerably expand my German vocabulary on feet.