{"product_id":"the-last-year-of-the-war-paperback","title":"The Last Year of the War - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eSusan Meissner\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the acclaimed author of \u003ci\u003eSecrets of a Charmed Life\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eAs Bright as Heaven\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn 1943, Elise Sontag is a typical American teenager from Iowa--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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe Last Year of the War \u003c\/i\u003etells 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.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSusan Meissner\u003c\/b\u003e is a former managing editor of a weekly newspaper and an award-winning columnist. She is the award-winning author of \u003ci\u003eA Fall of Marigolds\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSecrets of a Charmed Life\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eStars over Sunset Boulevard\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eA Bridge Across the Ocean\u003c\/i\u003e, and\u003ci\u003e As Bright as Heaven\u003c\/i\u003e, among other novels.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 416\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.1 x 8.1 x 5.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 07, 2020\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51769415631136,"sku":"9780451492166","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/873f27e7e8d1e603f25f2f27bf4ac931.webp?v=1780347562","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/the-last-year-of-the-war-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}