Iowa was one of the states that outlawed speaking a foreign language in public during this time period. I was familiar with the discrimination against the Japanese but I was surprised that German Americans were also targeted. For those who enjoy historical fiction and "gentle reads."
Saturday, June 21, 2014
Hope at Dawn / Stacy Henrie /303 pp
Takes place during World War II in Iowa. Livy expects to marry her handsome and charming beau and become a housewife and mother. When her unofficial fiance returns home injured, embittered and unable to cope without alcohol, she takes a job in a nearby community teaching German American children whose teacher has been imprisoned as a German spy. There Liby's preconceptions about the "enemy" are challenged.
Iowa was one of the states that outlawed speaking a foreign language in public during this time period. I was familiar with the discrimination against the Japanese but I was surprised that German Americans were also targeted. For those who enjoy historical fiction and "gentle reads."
Iowa was one of the states that outlawed speaking a foreign language in public during this time period. I was familiar with the discrimination against the Japanese but I was surprised that German Americans were also targeted. For those who enjoy historical fiction and "gentle reads."
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