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A Novel of World War II
Sunstone Press
October 2008
On Sale: October 15, 2008
316 pages
ISBN: 0865345961
EAN: 9780865345966
Paperback
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Historical
In this superbly researched WWII novel, award-winning
writer, Tori Warner Shepard, captures the mood of remote
Santa Fe, New Mexico as it waits out WWII for the return of
her men held in Japanese prison camps. POW Melo Garcia has
survived the Bataan Death March in the Philippines but his
brother and father have not. Along with 1,500 other American
prisoners, he is diseased, tortured, starved, and used as
slave labor in a condemned coal mine outside of Nagasaki,
Japan. Melo is the last living hope to continue his family's
centuries old line for his war-widowed mother, Nicasia, who
prays for his return alongside his sweetheart, LaBelle. They
have received no reliable news since the surrender to the
enemy in 1942. The novel is as much a story of the men's
heroism as it is of their Hispanic community which after
Pearl Harbor was a distant and a safe refuge from the war,
sought out by the US Government as an internment camp for
2,000 Japanese Isseii barely a mile from the office
of the top-secret Manhattan Project that was developing the
atomic bomb to be dropped 20 miles from Melo's prison camp.
Add to the mix FBI and counter-intelligence agents, Gringo
fanatics opposed to Roosevelt, Melo's novia LaBelle
and Phyllis, the redheaded bombshell, who challenges her.
And Melo himself with his mother who embodies gracia,
a word that does not translate. This gripping exposition of
the Japanese atrocities is even-handed and the characters
and personalities on the home front will haunt your memory.
Comments
2 comments posted.
Re: Now Silence
I am soooo excited to get this book! Finally, a womans perspective on the War! This is going to be absolutely amazing!
Alty, September 04, 2008
(Alty Respor 11:18pm September 4, 2008)
As this insightful book about WWII life in
the Southwestern USA shows so well,
those at home had to fight for survival
and sanity just as hard in their own way
as did the troops overseas.
(Sp Matchett 4:26pm September 15, 2008)
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