This week, we feature a history exploring how the United States decided to join World War I and a classic about a traitor who grows to love his homeland.
Fiction Goodness Found, Even in War
‘All the Light We Cannot See’
By Anthony Doerr
A French girl named Marie-Laure LeBlanc has fled Paris with her father to the walled citadel of Saint-Malo. A German boy named Werner Pfennig is an expert transmitter, and he tracks the enemy. Two young lives, two warring cultures, both cling to survival in 1944.
Scribner Reprint Edition, 2017, 544 pages Stories From a Great Danish Writer
‘Anecdotes of Destiny and Ehrengard’
By Isak Dinesen…