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Author Meissner, Susan, 1961- author.

Title The last year of the war / Susan Meissner.

Edition First edition.
Publication Info. New York : Berkley, 2019.
Bookmark link: https://library.naperville-lib.org:444/record=b1931353~S1
Location Call No. Status
 95th Street Adult Fiction  F MEISSNER    DUE 05-09-24
 Naper Blvd. Adult Fiction  F MEISSNER    AVAILABLE
 Nichols Adult Fiction  F MEISSNER    DUE 05-13-24
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Description 389 pages ; 24 cm
Summary Elise Sontag is a typical Iowa fourteen-year-old in 1943--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. 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.
Subject World War, 1939-1945 -- United States -- Fiction.
Crystal City Internment Camp (Crystal City, Tex.) -- Fiction.
German Americans -- Evacuation and relocation, 1941-1948 -- Fiction.
Genre Historical fiction.
ISBN 9780451492159 (hardcover)
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