What We Leave Behind: A Novel

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Synopsis
In 1947, war bride Ursula arrives in Minneapolis torn between guilt over leaving loved ones behind and her desire to start a new life—and a family—in this promised land. But the American dream proves elusive—she is struck with polio, and then shocked by the sudden death of her GI husband. Without a spouse or the child she so desperately wanted, Ursula must rely on her shrewd survival skills from wartime Berlin, and she takes in a boarder to help make ends meet. She soon falls in love with the Argentinean medical technician living in her spare bedroom, but his devotion to communism troubles her—and when she finds herself pregnant with his child, she is faced with a dilemma: how to reconcile her dream of motherhood with an America that is so different from what she imagined.
Copyright:
2023

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Book Quality:
Publisher Quality
ISBN-13:
9781647424947
Related ISBNs:
9781647424930
Publisher:
She Writes Press
Date of Addition:
Copyrighted By:
Christine Gallagher Kearney
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
Has Image Descriptions:
No
Categories:
History, Military, Literature and Fiction, Parenting and Family
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Bookshare Staff
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