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What We Leave Behind
Overview
In 1947, war bride Ursula arrives in Minneapolis torn between guilt over leaving loved ones behind and her desire to start a new life--and a family--in this promised land. But the American dream proves elusive--she is struck with polio, and then shocked by the sudden death of her GI husband.
Without a spouse or the child she so desperately wanted, Ursula must rely on her shrewd survival skills from wartime Berlin, and she takes in a boarder to help make ends meet. She soon falls in love with the Argentinean medical technician living in her spare bedroom, but his devotion to communism troubles her--and when she finds herself pregnant with his child, she is faced with a dilemma: how to reconcile her dream of motherhood with an America that is so different from what she imagined.Customers Also Bought
Details
- ISBN-13: 9781647424930
- ISBN-10: 1647424933
- Publisher: She Writes Press
- Publish Date: July 2023
- Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.5 x 1.1 inches
- Shipping Weight: 1.05 pounds
- Page Count: 256
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