Jasmin Schreiber | »Da, wo ich dich sehen kann«

"Where I Can See You" by Jasmin Schreiber

Nine-year-old Maja grows up in a broken home—with a tyrannical father, a loving but oppressed mother, and in between, a lot of silence and things that no one explains to her. When Frank, Maja’s father, kills her mother, he tears a hole in the world—for Maja, but also for everyone else left behind.

From one moment to the next, nothing is the same anymore: Caught between grief, a custody battle, and bureaucracy, Maja becomes a pawn and, amid applications and jurisdictional disputes, loses her family, her home, her sense of security, and the certainty of where she belongs. Her godmother Liv becomes Maja’s only ray of hope: Liv works as an astrophysicist and inspires Maja with a passion for the wonders of the universe. At the same time, she struggles with her own insecurities, old fears, and the overwhelming pressure of suddenly having to take on responsibility. And yet, Liv and Maja grow closer: as they gaze through the telescope and try to find answers in the endless expanse of space that no one else can give them.

A novel about the echoes of violence, about structural failure—and about how a community is thrown into turmoil when a femicide shatters everything. Told from multiple perspectives, it unfolds a panorama of a family in a state of emergency and a society that still evades the structural core of violence.

Jasmin Schreiber, born in Frankfurt am Main in 1988, is a biologist and writer. Eichborn has published her novels *Marianengraben*, *Der Mauersegler*, and *Endling*, as well as her nonfiction book *Schreibers Naturarium*, which was named Nonfiction Book of the Year in 2023. Jasmin Schreiber lives in Hamburg.

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