"The way I see it, you can't work hard and be a good person with your eyes closed. That means the American Dream is not a dream at all. It's a wish."
The Last Year of the War by: Susan Meissner
rating: really liked
This is really a different kind of WWII book. Told from the perspective of Elise in her old age, she recounts her childhood which was filled with uncertainty after her father, a legal US resident who immigrated from Germany is deemed a Nazi sympathizer by the US government. Her family is sent to an internment camp in Texas and she makes fast friends with Mariko, a Japanese American girl from LA, whose friendship shapes the rest of her life. I loved what this book has to say about the treatment of those who are different from us, about friendship, and about owning our own stories.
This was our book club book in April and led to some great discussions about the stories that history tells, what we want to root for, and what friendship and time do to shape us.
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