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Berkley
March 2019
On Sale: March 19, 2019
400 pages
ISBN: 0451492153
EAN: 9780451492159
Kindle: B07DZW5X3K
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Women's Fiction Historical
From the acclaimed author of Secrets of a Charmed
Life and As Bright as Heaven comes a novel about
a German American teenager whose life changes forever when
her immigrant family is sent to an internment camp during
World War II. Elise Sontag is a typical Iowa fourteen-year-old in
1943--aware of the war but distanced from its reach. Then
her father, a legal U.S. resident for nearly two decades, is
suddenly arrested on suspicion of being a Nazi sympathizer.
The family is sent to an internment camp in Texas, where,
behind the armed guards and barbed wire, Elise feels
stripped of everything beloved and familiar, including her
own identity. The only thing that makes the camp bearable is meeting
fellow internee Mariko Inoue, a Japanese-American teen from
Los Angeles, whose friendship empowers Elise to believe the
life she knew before the war will again be hers. Together in
the desert wilderness, Elise and Mariko hold tight the dream
of being young American women with a future beyond the fences. But when the Sontag family is exchanged for American
prisoners behind enemy lines in Germany, Elise will face
head-on the person the war desires to make of her. In that
devastating crucible she must discover if she has the will
to rise above prejudice and hatred and re-claim her own
destiny, or disappear into the image others have cast upon her. The Last Year of the War tells a little-known story
of World War II with great resonance for our own times and
challenges the very notion of who we are when who we’ve
always been is called into question.
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