History Literature / Schroder

* AdultFear: The plot features several including divorce, depression, losing custody of your children and other issues. [[spoiler: Meadow having a life-threatening asthma attack is also a major one.]]

* BilingualBonus: The novel features repeated uses of the German language (mostly due to the fact it is Eric’s first language) A few of the lines are left totally untranslated.

* VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory: The writer was inspired by a similar incident which [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_Gerhartsreiter involved a man faking his identity and later kidnapping his daughter.]] The similarity between the two stories ends there.

''Schroder: A Novel'' is a 2013 novel by Amity Gaige. The plot focuses on Eric Schroder, an East German immigrant who creates a fictional identity (Eric Kennedy) as a young child when he applies applying to a summer camp. He continues to go by this name as well as his fictional backstory for several years. Along the way he marries a woman named Laura and has a child. His marriage eventually disintegrates and he struggles to maintain his life as well as his relationship with his six-year-old daughter, Meadow. During a parental visit, he flees home and takes her with him on a roadtrip through New England.

* AdultFear: The plot features several including divorce, depression, losing custody of your children and other issues. [[spoiler: Meadow having a life threatening asthma attack is also a major one.]]

* SexForSolace: This is a major motivation for Eric sleeping with April and he even starts crying afterwards.

* ParentsAsPeople: Played straight with Eric and Laura. Both try their best to take care of Laura, but are both shown to have their own problems. Eric's relationship with Meadow is shown to be loving despite the fact it is dysfunctional.

* DrowningMySorrows: Eric engages in this at multiple points after Laura and he separate.

* PaintingTheMedium: At one point in the book [[spoiler: the phrase “I let you down” is repeated for three whole pages.]]

* FromTheMouthOfBabes: Meadow occasionally says profound things and has a surprisingly large vocabulary for a six-year-old. The fact that it is pulled off at least somewhat believably can be partially attributed to the fact that [[WriteWhatYouKnow some of the dialogue was based off of things that the author's son actually said.]]

''Schroder: A Novel'' is a 2013 novel by Amity Gaige about Eric Schroder, an East German immigrant who creates a fictional identity (Eric Kennedy) as a young child when he applies applying to a summer camp. He continues to go by this name as well as his fictional backstory for several years. Along the way he marries and has a child. His marriage eventually disintegrates and he struggles to maintain his life as well as his relationship with his six-year-old daughter, Meadow. During a parental visit, he flees home and takes her with him on a roadtrip through New England.

* FramingDevice: The story is gradually revealed to be [[spoiler: a letter that Eric is writing to his wife.]]

''Schroder'' is a 2013 novel by Amity Gaige about Eric Schroder, an East German immigrant who creates a fictional identity (Eric Kennedy) as a young child when he applies applying to a summer camp. He continues to go by this name as well as his fictional backstory for several years. Along the way he marries and has a child. His marriage eventually disintegrates and he struggles to maintain his life as well as his relationship with his six-year-old daughter, Meadow. During a parental visit, he flees home and takes her with him on a roadtrip through New England.