across the winding river by aimie k runyan

This ignites her curiosity, as the woman is visibly pregnant and looking very much in love. While gathering these items, Beth finds an old picture of Max and a woman, who is NOT her mother. When his declining health can no longer be ignored, he requests that Beth bring him his war memorabilia to get into order. When the story begins, we find ourselves in 2007 California, where Max is living in a private care home.

Runyan’s latest beauty is told through three points of view: Max, a dual timeline story within itself, once a dentist-turned-medic in the second world war and now as a 90 year old in poor health Johanna, a young woman living in Germany during the war, whose family is deeply affected by Hitler’s reign and present day through Beth, Max’s daughter. Such an amazing author and a very warm person! We loved being able to take turns asking questions and she was so gracious to spend part of her Sunday afternoon with us! Runyan joined us via Skype to discuss her book, “Girls on the Line”. Only when the two women meet does Beth realize how much more to her father there is to know, all the ways in which his heart still breaks, and the closure he needs to heal it.Back in March of 2019, my book club, Between the Covers, celebrated its 5th birthday. In a nearby private care home is a fragile German-born woman with her own past to share. Ahead of them lay a dangerous romance, a dream of escape, and a destiny over which neither had control.īut Max isn't alone in his haunting remembrances of war.

Together, she and Max were willing to risk everything for what they believed was right. It was 1944 when Max was drawn into the underground resistance by the fearless German wife of a Nazi officer.

Then, among his wartime souvenirs, Beth finds a photograph of her father with an adoring and beautiful stranger-a photograph worth a thousand questions. His only request of his daughter is to go through the long-forgotten box of memorabilia from his days as a medic on the western front. A woman unlocks the mystery of her father's wartime past in a moving novel about secrets, sacrifice, and the power of love by the bestselling author of Daughters of the Night Sky.īeth Cohen wants to make the most of the months she has left with her elderly father, Max.

Across the winding river by aimie k runyan