by Elizabeth Berg. Random House, 2007. 276 p.
World War Two turned the lives of most Americans upside down, not in the least the lives of Kitty Heaney and her two sisters. Between boyfriends going off to war, joining a defense job, and keeping up with USO dances and letter-writing, the sisters lives are centered around this major event in American history. Reading Elizabeth Berg is much like living: experiencing love, passion, heartbreak, jealousy, devotion, fear and an entire litany of other emotions. Descriptive yet succinct, she is able to bring to life both Chicago during World War Two and life as young, civilian women. Readers of the Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society with appreciate a keen story teller with a passion and understanding of the correspondence of yore, but who can also create a family so real they feel as if they are your own.
World War Two turned the lives of most Americans upside down, not in the least the lives of Kitty Heaney and her two sisters. Between boyfriends going off to war, joining a defense job, and keeping up with USO dances and letter-writing, the sisters lives are centered around this major event in American history. Reading Elizabeth Berg is much like living: experiencing love, passion, heartbreak, jealousy, devotion, fear and an entire litany of other emotions. Descriptive yet succinct, she is able to bring to life both Chicago during World War Two and life as young, civilian women. Readers of the Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society with appreciate a keen story teller with a passion and understanding of the correspondence of yore, but who can also create a family so real they feel as if they are your own.
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