Every Tear A Memory
Myra Johnson
Abingdon Press, Oct 21 2014, $14.99
ISBN: 9781426753725
In 1919 France, Joanna Trapp worked for the U.S. Army Signal Corps as a “Hello Girl”. There she met and
fell in love with Walter, but he died in combat near Saint-Étienne-à-Arnes. After visiting the site of Walter’s death,
Joanna opens up a letter from her brother Jack informing her that their
mentally unstable widow mother died three weeks ago back home in Hot Springs,
Arkansas. Jack begs her to come home as
he cannot raise their younger sister Lily alone.
Joanna returns to the States to help her family. Arlington Hotel manager Thomas Ballard hires
as a switchboard operator. Though the
boss and the employee are attracted to each other, she pledged loyalty to Walter;
and he feels as her unworthy inferior having been medically rejected by the
military; unlike his brother a hero in the Great War.
The third Till We Meet Again
WWI era drama (See Whisper Goodbye and When The Clouds Roll By) is a fabulous
tale of opposites in love. The
gender-bending lead couple is a wonderful pairing of an adventuress who finds
civilian life in Arkansas exceedingly boring and a businessman who prefers the
constant “tedium” of staying at home to raise a beloved family.
Harriet Klausner
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