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This richly complex novel is by far Piercy's best as she
follows the lives of ten people during World War II. It's not the war most novelists have
written about.
The chapters alternately tell the stories of people behind the scenes: a female pilot; a
painter who gets caught up in the Resistance; a factory worker at home; a Jewish Marine
fighting both the Japanese and anti-Semitism; a man dodging U-boats while running
supplies; a romance writer striving to become a serious journalist; a cryptographer in
Washington; a young privileged American who finds herself in the intelligence service in
London; a spoiled Parisian who scorns her Jewish background until war changes her view of
her heritage; and, the Parisian's younger sister who is sent to America for safety.
Many of their stories intertwine eventually, some tangentially, some profoundly.
--- Reviewed by BookpgXena
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