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William Morrow
June 2015
On Sale: June 1, 2015
Featuring: Thomas Christiansen; Kate Christiansen
ISBN: 0062343629
EAN: 9780062343628
Kindle: B00NEPGXDG
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A powerfully sensuous and gripping debut laced with
suspense, The Cherry Harvest reveals a hidden side of
World
War II's home front, when German POWs are put to work in
a
Wisconsin farm community . . . with dark and unexpected
consequences It's the summer of 1944 in Door County, Wisconsin, where
even the lush cherry orchards and green lakeside farms
can't
escape the ravages of war. With food rationed and money
scarce, the Christiansen family struggles to hold on. The
family's teenage daughter, Kate, raises rabbits to save
money for college, while her mother, Charlotte, barters
what
she can to make ends meet. Charlotte's husband, Thomas,
strives to keep the orchard going while their son—along
with
most of the other able-bodied men—is fighting overseas.
With
the upcoming harvest threatened by the labor shortage,
strong-willed Charlotte helps persuade local authorities
to
allow German war prisoners from a nearby POW camp to pick
the fruit. But when Thomas befriends one of the prisoners, a math
teacher named Karl, and invites him to tutor Kate, both
Charlotte and Kate are swept into a world where love,
duty,
and honor are not as clear-cut as they might have
believed.
Charlotte and Thomas fail to see that Kate is becoming a
young woman, with dreams and temptations of her own. And
when their beloved son, Ben, returns from the
battlefield,
wounded and bitter, the secrets they've all been keeping
threaten to explode their world.
Interviews for The Cherry Harvest
Immersed in History with Lucy Sanna, author of THE CHERRY HARVEST The Cherry Harvest June 24, 2015
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