The wartime sisters
(2019)

Fiction

Large Type

Call Numbers:
LARGE TYPE/FICTION/LOIGMAN,L

Availability

Locations Call Number Status
Large Type LARGE TYPE/FICTION/LOIGMAN,L Available

Details

PUBLISHED
Waterville, Maine : Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company, 2019
©2019
EDITION
Large print edition
DESCRIPTION

475 pages (large print) ; 23 cm

ISBN/ISSN
9781432861032, 1432861034 :, 1432861034, 9781432861032
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES

For fans of Lilac Girls, the next powerful novel from the author of Goodreads Choice Awards semifinalist The Two-Family House about two sisters working in a WWII armory, each with a deep secret. Loigman's strong voice and artful prose earn her a place in the company of Alice Hoffman and Anita Diamant, whose readers should flock to this wondrous new book.--Pam Jenoff, New York Times bestselling author of The Orphan's Tale The Wartime Sisters shows the strength of women on the home front: to endure, to fight, and to help each other survive. --Jenna Blum, New York Times and international bestselling author of The Lost Family and Those Who Save Us Two estranged sisters, raised in Brooklyn and each burdened with her own shocking secret, are reunited at the Springfield Armory in the early days of WWII. While one sister lives in relative ease on the bucolic Armory campus as an officer's wife, the other arrives as a war widow and takes a position in the Armory factories as a "soldier of production." Resentment festers between the two, and secrets are shattered when a mysterious figure from the past reemerges in their lives

Sisters Ruth and Millie, raised in Brooklyn, are each burdened with her own shocking secret and became estranged. Reunited at the Springfield Armory in the early days of WWII, one sister lives in relative ease on the bucolic Armory campus as an officer's wife, the other arrives as a war widow and takes a position in the Armory factories as a "soldier of production." Resentment festers between the two, and secrets are shattered when a mysterious figure from the past reemerges in their lives. -- adapted from back cover