Novel a long way home series#

This story touches on a lot of traumatizing situations, but nothing is too in-your-face. The description offers an attention to detail that takes you right into the story, and once you start reading, you’ll want to keep turning pages. You want these people to live and thrive.

I appreciated how the characters struggled to hold onto hope, but kept trying anyway. Honestly, I felt like this story was a little bit heavy, but appropriately so for the subject matter. I appreciated this book’s honest approach to recovering from horrors no human was ever meant to see. It’s easy to look back and admire the courage and resilience of the Greatest Generation, but they were human just like us and endured so much pain. Long Way Homefollows two storylines: a Jewish girl fighting for survival through WWII and an American girl trying to help her friend recover from the horrors of war.

Novel a long way home series#

Thus begins Gisela’s perilous journey of exile and survival, made possible only by the kindness and courage of a series of strangers she meets along the way, including one man who will change the course of her life. But the ship is denied safe harbor and sent back to Europe. Gisela meets Sam Shapiro on board and the two fall quickly in love. Seven years earlier, sensing the rising tide against her people, Gisela Wolff and her family flee Germany aboard the passenger ship St. She starts by contacting Jimmy’s war buddies, trying to identify the mysterious woman in the photo they find in Jimmy’s belongings.

Peggy determines to help the Barnetts unravel what might have happened to send their son over the edge. When he attempts the unthinkable, his parents check him into the VA hospital. But the Jimmy Barnett who returns is much different from the Jimmy who left, changed so drastically by his experience as a medic in Europe that he can barely function. Peggy Serrano couldn’t wait for her best friend to come home from the war.