Great Lakes/Great Books DIscussion Group
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Write On, Door County
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4210 Juddville Rd., Fish Creek, WI 54212
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Great Lakes/Great Books is a monthly discussion group of books that have the Great Lakes as setting or subject matter. All are welcome, whether or not you have read the book. No registration is required.
This month's selection is The Cherry Harvest by Lucy Sanna.
During World War II, German prisoners of war were put to work harvesting Door County's cherry orchards. With food rationed and money scarce, the Christiansen family struggles to survive. One of the prisoners, a teacher named Karl, is befriended by the family and invited to tutor their teenage daughter. When their son returns from war bitter and injured and bearing an intense hatred fo Germans, their world is threatened.
