This wonderful novel explores how the bonds of love and family can survive the harshest circumstances. Set against the backdrop of World War II, the couple at the heart of the novel -- Janusz and Silvana -- are torn apart and, many years later, reunited, together with their young son. But that se...
Nellie walked along the riverbank. She was going to swim and wash off the dust that clung to her from a day spent turning hay. She stopped and undressed under the willows, slipping into her swimming clothes. She had stitched lead weights into the hem of a cotton farm smock to keep it from lifting...