Things We Didnt Say, Amy Lynn Green
Things We Didnt Say, Amy Lynn Green
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Things We Didn't Say

Author: Amy Lynn Green

Narrator: Leah Horowitz

Unabridged: 12 hr 38 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 11/03/2020


Synopsis

Ironside Lake, Minnesota
January 1944

Headstrong and determined, linguistics student Johanna Berglund has very definite plans for her future … plans that do not include returning to her hometown and the secrets and heartaches she left
behind. But when the only way to her intended future is through undertaking a translator position at a nearby camp for German POWs, she reluctantly accepts.

Johanna arrives to find the once-sleepy Minnesota town exploding with hostility. Most patriotic citizens want nothing to do with German soldiers laboring in their fields, and they’re not afraid
to criticize those who work at the camp as well. When Johanna describes the trouble to her close friend Peter Ito, a language instructor at a school for military intelligence officers, he encourages her to give the town that rejected her a second chance.

As Johanna interacts with the prisoners and censors their letters home, she begins to see them in a more sympathetic light, but advocating for better treatment makes her enemies in the
community. The longer Johanna wages her home-front battle, the more the lines between compassion and treason become blurred— and she must decide where her heart truly lies.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Regina

This girl's got gumption! Who would have thought that a WWII Christian historical fiction novel would make me laugh in more than a few places, but the heroine of Things We Didn't Say kept me smiling and you-go-girl cheering due to her "headstrong" nature throughout all 416 pages. Comparisons to The G......more

Goodreads review by Sarah

An outstanding debut novel, told entirely through letters and newspaper articles! Much will be said about the unique format of Things We Didn’t Say, but what truly shines in this novel are the characters. Outspoken and delightfully antisocial, Johanna sparkles with wit, but she also comes to see the......more

Goodreads review by Karren

Johanna Berglund is a linguistic student at The University of Minnesota, she returns to her hometown and moves back in with her parents and starts working as a translator at the new German POW camp at Ironside Lake. The story is told by using letters and the epistolary writing style isn’t difficult......more