Naperville Public Library
Library Hours
Monday to Friday: 9 a.m. to 9 p.m.
Saturday: 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Sunday: 1 p.m. to 9 p.m.
Naper Blvd. 1 p.m. to 5 p.m.
Home Best Sellers Research a Topic Download & Stream Material Request My Account
     
Limit search to available items
Results Page:  Previous Next
Author Kearney, Christine Gallagher, author.

Title What we leave behind : a novel / Christine Gallagher Kearney. [Boundless electronic resource]

Publication Info. Berkeley, CA : She Writes Press, 2023.
To Access:
Found on Boundless
Bookmark link: https://library.naperville-lib.org:444/record=b3119703~S1
QR Code
Description 1 online resource (321 pages)
text file rda
Summary "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"-- Provided by publisher.
System Details Requires Boundless App.
Subject War brides -- Fiction.
Husbands -- Death -- Fiction.
Pregnancy -- Fiction.
Man-woman relationships -- Fiction.
Minneapolis (Minn.) -- Fiction.
Genre Historical fiction.
Domestic fiction.
Novels.
Other Form: Electronic reproduction of (manifestation): Kearney, Christine Gallagher. What we leave behind Berkeley, CA : She Writes Press, 2023 9781647424930 (NjBwBT)bl2023024327
ISBN 9781647424947
1647424941
Patron reviews: add a review
Click for more information
EBOOK
No one has rated this material

You can...
Also...
- Find similar reads
- Add a review
- Sign-up for Newsletter
- Suggest a purchase
- Can't find what you want?
More Information
Find another book like this at Novelist

 
 
© Naperville Public Library 2019.