R E K. (bigstone) - , reviewed on 5/11/2015 + 1438 more book reviews

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Next to Love by Ellen Feldman is a story about three young women, close friends, who marry as WWII is beginning. Only one of the husbands return, shell shocked and unable to forget the horror of war. One woman has great difficulty accepting life without her husband nearly going mad as she tries to go on living. The third reconciles herself to her new life and remarries to a man of the Jewish faith and must deal with distrust and maligning of Jewish people as she raises her family. I found this an interesting read with depths that stir the mind and heart about war, life, and freedom and the costs incurred in all their phases.

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