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Penguin Books"Stiefvater bases her novel in real history, featuring plenty of anecdotes that are far too strange to be fictional, and glorying in the wild beauty of her mountain setting.” —Crime Reads ✨🌀 Did you know that The Avallon Hotel & Spa in @Maggie Stiefvater’s THE LISTENERS (on sale June 3), is modeled after real-life hotels—The Hershey Hotel, the Greenbriar, the Homestead—that were asked to house Axis diplomats during WWII? 🤔 Magnificent in scale, these hotels were cities in the middle of nowhere, intentionally selected for their rural locations where they could operate outside public view and be easily guarded. The location of these hotels posed a unique challenge: staffing. While they offered opulence to their high society guests, these hotels were run by working-class locals—many of whom have sons and husbands heading to the front lines of the war—who were asked to offer luxury to Nazis. With a smile. Through research and rich storytelling, "Stiefvater creates a complex and subtle story of how politics, jobs and social class hinder and complicate people’s paths to becoming who they would like to be." (BookPage) ✨
On the profile · May 21, 2025