What We May Become

The write up for this novel didn’t really give a full picture of what was to unfold. The subject matter was intriguing and wetted my appetite to read on. The story, based on real places and in part real people, shows an entirely different side to the war in Europe and, as Teresa says in her Afterwor......more

I think this could have been a much better book. The skeleton for a great book was there but the characters and the story were just not deeply developed. I wanted just a little more. I felt like I was barely introduced to the characters before they were gone. Justifiable if they were serving to high......more

Redolent of The English Patient, Teresa Messineo's What We May Become, is the story of Diana Bolsena, a US Army nurse, separated from her unit at the end of WW2 in Italy. While trying to reconnect with her Army unit and so continue nursing in the Pacific, Diana finds herself employed first in a smal......more

This book reveals yet another atrocity of the Nazi regime. However, for me, it takes too long to get to what it is and what the repercussions could be. The author has a talent for description and details.......more

A REAL SLOW READ until the ending, then WOW! Stick with it, readers! 1945 - WW2 is ending in Europe when American Red Cross nurse Diana Bolsena is separated from her unit and stranded in a small town in Tuscany. She works for food and shelter in a brothel run by a tyrannical woman and tries to help t......more