![]() ![]() Suffice it to say that the author did a good job interweaving these three stories (one modern and two historical) into an effective and interesting narrative. Jewish ancestry plays a role, so there's a hint. ![]() How Johanna's and Max's stories come together is part of the developing plot, so no spoilers here. She is a reluctant participant in the war and her family story, with their uncertainties and reservations, is well told. The author then takes us back in time to two other storylines that eventually come together - Max's days as a medic on the front lines in France, and a woman named Johanna, who is a pilot and engineer working in the Luftwaffe developing war planes for Nazi Germany. This would not be her mother, of course, as Beth's parents met after Max got home from Europe. ![]() She brings him a box of his memorabilia and asks him about a war picture of him as a medic holding a beautiful, young woman who is obviously pregnant. It starts out, however, in Southern California, 2007, when Max, now in a nursing home with failing health, begins sharing with his daughter Beth a bit of his heretofore unknown past. I enjoyed this historical novel set for the most part in Germany during WW2. ![]()
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