In July the Hiawassee Book Club will discuss The Wind Knows My Name by Isabel Allende.
Traces the ripple effects of war and immigration on two children—5-year-old Samuel, whose mother puts him on a Kindertransport train out of Nazi-occupied Austria to England in 1938, and 7-year-old Anita, who boards another train eight decades later to the U.S., where she’s separated from her mother. Anita's case is assigned to Selena Duran, a young social worker who discovers that Anita has another family member in the United States: Leticia Cordero, who is employed at the home of now eighty-six-year-old Samuel Adler, linking these two lives. Spanning time and place, The Wind Knows My Name is both a testament to the sacrifices that parents make and a love letter to the children who survive the most unfathomable dangers--and never stop dreaming.
AGE GROUP: | Adults |
EVENT TYPE: | Authors - Books - Writing |
TAGS: | hiawassee | bookclubs | bb-bookclubs |