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Set in France and America, News of Our Loved Ones is a haunting and intimate examination of love and loss, beauty and the cost of survival, witnessed through two generations of one French family, whose lives are all touched by the tragic events surrounding the D-Day bombings in Normandy. What if your family's fate could be traced back to one indelible summer? Over four long years, the Delasalle family has struggled to live in their Nazi occupied village in Normandy. Maman, Oncle Henri, Yvonne, and Françoise silently watched as their Jewish neighbors were arrested or wordlessly disappeared. Now in June 1944, when the sirens wail each day, warning of approaching bombers, the family wonders if rumors of the coming Allied invasion are true—and if they will survive to see their country liberated. For sixteen-year-old Yvonne, thoughts of the war recede when she sees the red-haired boy bicycle past her window each afternoon. Murmuring to herself I love you, I love you, I love you , she wills herself to hear the whisper of his bicycle tires over the screech of Allied bombs falling from the sky. Yvonne's sister, Geneviève, is in Paris to audition for the National Conservatory. Pausing to

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Author

Abigail De Witt

Publisher

Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers

Published

2018

Language

EN

ISBN

9781982553715

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, History

Rating

4.1 / 5 (66 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14