across the winding river by aimie k runyan

In a nearby private care home is a fragile German-born woman with her own past to share. Ahead of them lay a dangerous romance, a dream of escape, and a destiny over which neither had control.īut Max isn't alone in his haunting remembrances of war.

Together, she and Max were willing to risk everything for what they believed was right. It was 1944 when Max was drawn into the underground resistance by the fearless German wife of a Nazi officer. Then, among his wartime souvenirs, Beth finds a photograph of her father with an adoring and beautiful stranger-a photograph worth a thousand questions.

His only request of his daughter is to go through the long-forgotten box of memorabilia from his days as a medic on the western front. This is one of the ways that helps to fund the publication and allow us to have free articles.A woman unlocks the mystery of her father's wartime past in a moving novel about secrets, sacrifice, and the power of love by the bestselling author of Daughters of the Night Sky.īeth Cohen wants to make the most of the months she has left with her elderly father, Max. Some of the links within this post will direct you to an affiliate partner and we may make a very small commission on any purchases you make through them. Runyan is out 1 August 2020 (Lake Union Publishing) Sadly, the storyline itself disappointed twice when coincidences were just too big to believe, but the writing itself kept me reading about the very relatable characters.Īcross the Winding River, by Aimie K. Review: The Good Luck Cat(Opens in a new browser tab) Through Johanna and the different members of her family she shows the struggles each person has in the oppressed Reich and why they sometimes had to go along with what they felt or knew was wrong, because anything else would put them in danger. She found the words to depict what is often not understood about the Hitler regime: how people could “let it happen”. This is a triple narrative story, told in the present by Beth, during the war by Max, and from the 1930s into the war by a young woman named Johanna.Īnd, to my surprise and Aimie Runyan’s credit, the one that drew me in was Johanna’s. Review: Etta and Otto and Russel and James(Opens in a new browser tab)

Across the winding river by aimie k runyan