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. In 1943, Elise Sontag is a typical American teenager from Iowaaware of the war but. Wilhelm II (1859-1941), the German kaiser (emperor) and king of Prussia from 1888 to 1918, was one of the most recognizable public figures of World War I (1914-18). In 1943, Elise Sontag is a typical American teenager from Iowaaware of the war but. Together in the desert wilderness, Elise and Mariko hold tight the dream of being young American women with a future beyond the fences.īut 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. From the acclaimed author of Secrets of a Charmed Life and As Bright as Heaven 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. From the acclaimed author of Secrets of a Charmed Life and As Bright as Heaven 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. 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. 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. resident for nearly two decades, is suddenly arrested on suspicion of being a Nazi sympathizer. She lives in Amherst, Massachusetts with her husband, Rudy, who is also a writer. 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.Įlise Sontag is a typical Iowa fourteen-year-old in 1943-aware of the war but distanced from its reach. In ‘The Last Year of the War,’ Susan Meissner explores the hidden horrors of war By Denise Davidson Ma6 AM PT In her new book, Poway resident and bestselling author Susan Meissner. The Last Year of the War Paperback About the Author Shirley Nelson is also the author of 'Fair, Clear and Terrible: the Story of Shiloh' a narrative history of a nineteenth-century sect.
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