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A review by carynrjones
The Last Year of the War by Susan Meissner
4.0
A beautiful story of two teenage girls in unfortunate circumstances that bond over their fate. Elise Sontag or German ancestry, born American and Mariko Inoue of Japanese ancestry, born American. Both with their families forced into internment camps during the last year of WWII. They find friendship, similarities, and good memories in the camp until they are both forced to repatriate with their families to countries they do not know.
We follow Elise back to Germany where she discovers the truth in survival, holding on to good memories, remembering true friends, and searching for a way back to America, the only home she knows. We jump time as we follow Elise today searching for Mariko in a last attempt to find her friend before Alzheimer's takes over for good. While we follow her to Mariko we discover he life story of what Germany was like during the war.
We see what she had to do to live through it, keep her positivity and make it back home.
We follow Elise back to Germany where she discovers the truth in survival, holding on to good memories, remembering true friends, and searching for a way back to America, the only home she knows. We jump time as we follow Elise today searching for Mariko in a last attempt to find her friend before Alzheimer's takes over for good. While we follow her to Mariko we discover he life story of what Germany was like during the war.
We see what she had to do to live through it, keep her positivity and make it back home.