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The Last Year of the War by Susan Meissner is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is The Last Year of the War about?
From the acclaimed author of Secrets of a Charmed Life and As Bright as Heaven comes a novel about a German American teenager whose life changes forever when her immigrant family is sent to an internment camp during World War II.Elise Sontag is a typical Iowa fourteen-year-old in 1943—aware of the war but distanced from its reach. Then her father, a legal U.S. resident for nearly two decades, is suddenly arrested on suspicion of being a Nazi sympathizer. The family is sent to an internment camp in Texas, where, behind the armed guards and barbed wire, Elise feels stripped of everything beloved and familiar, including her own identity.The only thing that makes the camp bearable is meeting fellow internee Mariko Inoue, a Japanese-American teen from Los Angeles, whose friendship empowers Elise to believe the life she knew before the war will again be hers. Together in the desert wilderness, Elise and Mariko hold tight the dream of being...
Who reads The Last Year of the War?
It is typically read by readers looking for immersive, entertainment-first reading.
Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Susan Meissner
- Publisher
- Penguin Publishing Group
- Published
- 2019
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780451492166
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Fiction
- Rating
- 3.91 / 5 (41 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14