From the minute I started reading this book, I couldn't put it down. Absolutely love the character of Elsie. From her younger years growing up in WWII Germany, to her years in El Paso at the German Bakery. This book was not only entertaining, but also very educational. I learned quite a bit ab...
Reba, young journalist and almost bride, is determined to get an interview with the woman who owns the German bakery in town. Once a friendship is established, Reba learns of a young woman, caught in a rapidly changing Germany, at the end of WWII. At first, young Elsie was determined to maintain ...
I tried to pomade them down, but they always sprang up and dried, crispy wet. Mamá noticed and asked me what I’d done to myself. I told her it was my hair, and I liked it that way, even though I didn’t.She started snooping through my stuff around then, cleaning my room when I told her not to, ask...
—BOB DYLAN, “JOHN BROWN” The quote was decoupaged across the neck of Denny’s guitar case. A duffel bag stuffed like a man-sized sausage blocked the screen door from fully opening. Eden squeezed through, and it clapped at her back. He turned, and the first thing she noticed was that he’d grown his...
Frau Rattelmüller gave a hacking cough into the sleeve of her coat. A chilly wind swept round the kitchen. “I saw the chimney smoke.” She banged her cane against timber door frame. “Your oven was lit early, so I thought I’d get my brötchen.” Elsie swallowed hard and stepped in front of Tobias, sh...