Odile has landed the job of her dreams in the America Library in Paris in 1939. Literary references and Dewey Decimal numbers roll off her tongue with ease as she rushes to help the cast of characters that inhabit its hallowed grounds. But the war is coming and everything is about to change.
In 1983, in Froid, Montana, eleven year old Lily lives next door to a very changed Odile. War is not the only thing that can drastically alter a life and many challenges confront Odile and Lily as the stories unfold, back and forth, over the next few years. Right - wrong. Good - bad. Love - hate. What can and cannot be forgiven. All are part of the story.
You have to wonder why after we fought the first war thousands of years ago, we didn't just come to the conclusion that that particular way of solving a problem made no sense at all. How our big brains didn't just come up with a better plan? The fact that so much of this story is based on real people and events allows it to move a good distance away from its "Hallmark" tendencies into a "Masterpiece" possibility. Not to mention that number of literary quotes you will want to underline or books you realize you still need to read.
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