Karen Shoemaker
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ms_rowse | 8 weitere Rezensionen | Jan 1, 2022 | Historical fiction is my favorite genre. This one was captivating mainly due to the setting - Nebraska during WWI and an influenza epidemic. The prejudice against German-Americans was very personal and wrote with prose that read like poetry. I loved the wording the author used to describe the plains - the palm of your hand. Many times throughout the novel I would ponder on her details and smile. I felt a connection to Gerda and her internal struggles as well as her love for her family. There are scenes written in such a way that I'll keep the images with me for a while - under Elizabeth's bed, the train to West Point, the letters from the postal carrier, the big storm, Owen's store, and the Vogel's home. Shoemaker crafted a tender and unforgettable novel.… (mehr)
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Beth.Clarke | 8 weitere Rezensionen | Jun 28, 2019 | This is a fictional book set in 1918 Nebraska. It tells the story about a German farm family and the struggles they faced with anti German attitudes, a flu epidemic and a World War. It is very well written.
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galoma | 8 weitere Rezensionen | Nov 20, 2017 | Reading this book, makes me wish I’d asked my German grandmother more questions. She, too, was a homesteader in Nebraska. It’s just lately, that I’ve come to realize that anyone who was German was looked on as a traitor during the First World War. Told from the perspective of a first-generation German-American woman who was disowned by her father because she refused to obey his directive to marry the man he approved of, the reader sees not only the impact of the war on German Americans, but how families can become divided as well by personal issues. Add the threat of a husband being drafted leaving a woman with four children, and the influenza epidemic, there’s a lot of history in this fictional account. I wish I’d ask my Grandma so many more questions.… (mehr)
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brangwinn | 8 weitere Rezensionen | Jul 30, 2016 | Auszeichnungen
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This was also a timely read--I put Nov. 4 as my start date, but I think I started reading it at the end of October. The anti-German, hyper-patriotic, xenophobic sentiment of 1917-1918 reminded me much of the toxic election season that coincided with my reading of this book. On one hand, I was comforted because I know we came out on the other side of such awful treatment of others. On the other hand, I was devastated because we simply refuse to learn from history.
I do not seek out fiction, and had this book not been on Nebraska's reading challenge, and had I not heard Shoemaker read her work on two separate occasions, I'm not sure I would have picked this one up. And that would have made my life much poorer than it is now that I've finished it. Read, read, read this book.… (mehr)