Noted: Nelson structures her story around the life of Greta Lorke Kuckhoff, a Berliner who came to the United States to pursue graduate studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the late 1920s. At an ice skating party at one of the city’s lakes, she met Mildred Fish Harnack, a Milwaukee native, UW-Madison graduate and literature professor who had married Arvid Harnack, another German graduate student.