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The Cherry Harvest

A Novel

by Lucy Sanna
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The tumult of WWII visits a Wisconsin family when a German POW comes to work on their farm in this novel of love and hardship on the American home front.
Wisconsin, 1944. where even the lush cherry orchards and green lakeside farms can't escape the ravages of war. With food rationed and money scarce, the Christiansen family struggles to hold on. The family's teenage daughter, Kate, raises rabbits to save money for college, while her mother, Charlotte, barters what she can to make ends meet. Charlotte's husband, Thomas, strives to keep the orchard going while their son—along with most of the other able-bodied men—is fighting overseas.
With the upcoming harvest threatened by the labor shortage, strong-willed Charlotte helps persuade local authorities to allow German war prisoners from a nearby POW camp to pick the fruit. But when Thomas befriends one of the prisoners, a math teacher named Karl, and invites him to tutor Kate, both Charlotte and Kate are swept into a world where love, duty, and honor are not as clear-cut as they might have believed.
Charlotte and Thomas fail to see that Kate is becoming a young woman, with dreams and temptations of her own. And when their beloved son, Ben, returns from the battlefield, wounded and bitter, the secrets they've all been keeping threaten to explode their world.

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  • Release date

    November 21, 2023

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      • ISBN: 9780062343642
      • File size: 546 KB

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      • ISBN: 9780062343642
      • File size: 1218 KB

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • Library Journal

      May 15, 2015

      It is 1944 in Door County, WI, and Charlotte Christiansen has persuaded her husband to use German prisoners of war from a nearby camp to help harvest the family's cherry orchard for another year of financial survival. Now the men have arrived, and the changes in her town, her family, and to herself are far greater than she ever could have imagined, including being attracted to one of the prisoners. Setting the story in a small community on the shores of Lake Michigan during World War II allows interesting details about daily life on the home front to become a large part of the story. Events move at a fast pace, adding to the intensity of the dramatic action but the characters are inconsistent in their thoughts and actions, making it hard for readers to become fully engaged. A series of unexpectedly abrupt and contrived plot twists toward the end may leave readers less than satisfied. VERDICT Despite its flaws, this debut novel makes a strong choice for book clubs as it addresses a wide range of topics for discussion: Is violence on a personal or global scale ever justified? Are relationships forged from necessity just as valid as those developed from emotion? Additionally, the issue of how deeply unacknowledged desires can affect the way we live is addressed. [See Prepub Alert, 12/15/14.]--Stacey Hayman, Rocky River P.L., OH

      Copyright 2015 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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