When We Meet Again, Kristin Harmel
When We Meet Again, Kristin Harmel
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When We Meet Again

Author: Kristin Harmel

Narrator: Justine Eyre

Unabridged: 10 hr 20 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 12/25/2018

Categories: Fiction, Family Life, Women


Synopsis

Emily thinks she's lost everything . . . until a mysterious painting leads her to what she wants most in the world. The new novel from the author of international bestsellers The Sweetness of Forgetting and The Life Intended shows why her books are hailed as "engaging" (People), "absorbing" (Kirkus Reviews) and "enthralling" (Fresh Fiction).

Emily Emerson is used to being alone; her dad ran out on the family when she was just a kid, her mom died when she was seventeen, and her beloved grandmother has just passed away as well. But when she's laid off from her reporting job, she finds herself completely at sea . . . until the day she receives a beautiful, haunting painting of a young woman standing at the edge of a sugarcane field under a violet sky. That woman is recognizable as her grandmother—and the painting arrived with no identification other than a handwritten note saying, "He always loved her."

Emily is hungry for roots and family, so she begins to dig. And as she does, she uncovers a fascinating era in American history. Her trail leads her to the POW internment camps of Florida, where German prisoners worked for American farmers . . . and sometimes fell in love with American women. But how does this all connect to the painting? The answer to that question will take Emily on a road that leads from the sweltering Everglades to Munich, Germany, and back to the Atlanta art scene before she's done.

Along the way, she finds herself tempted to tear down her carefully tended walls at last; she's seeing another side of her father, and a new angle on her painful family history. But she still has secrets, ones she's been keeping locked inside for years. Will this journey bring her the strength to confront them at last?

About Kristin Harmel

Kristin Harmel is the internationally bestselling author of The Room on Rue Amelie and The Sweetness of Forgetting, along with several other novels. Her work has been featured in People, Woman's Day, Men's Health, Runner's World, and Ladies' Home Journal, among many other media outlets. She lives in Orlando, Florida.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Jennifer ~ TarHeelReader on April 15, 2017

My first book by Kristin Harmel was charming, complex, well-researched, and nostalgic. Emily Emerson receives a painting from Germany, and in doing so, uncovers an enormous secret about her family. There were times when I had to suspend disbelief a little regarding the romance between Emily's grandp......more

Goodreads review by Pam on February 05, 2017

A wonderful book about a woman who finds a painting of her grandmother and uncovers a secret dating back to the internment of Germans in the southern United States during World War II. Nostalgic and bittersweet.......more

Goodreads review by Carol on October 02, 2023

***3.5 Stars**** This is our next book group choice. I enjoyed the novel, but it was more of a romance than historical fiction…not my favorite genre. I do love ancestral research so the search for a mysterious, German grandfather from WWII was most interesting. Maybe I’m just jaded in my old age, bu......more

Goodreads review by Karen on August 28, 2023

A beautiful story of enduring love and finding forgiveness. I read it in one sitting in 2017 because it moved me to want more!......more

Goodreads review by Linda on July 14, 2016

I have very mixed feelings about When We Meet Again by Kristin Harmel. A granddaughter receives an anonymous painting of what appears to be her grandmother, who has recently passed, with an unsigned note essentially saying that her grandfather never forgot about her grandmother (who he abandoned), t......more