In 1947, war bride Ursula arrives in Minneapolis torn between guilt over leaving loved ones behind and her desire to start a new life - and a family - in this promised land. But the American dream proves elusive - she is struck with polio, and then shocked by the sudden death of her GI husband. Without a spouse or the child she so desperately wanted, Ursula must rely on her shrewd survival skills from wartime Berlin, and she takes in a boarder to help make ends meet. She soon falls in love with the Argentinean medical technician living in her spare bedroom, but his devotion to communism troubles her - and when she finds herself pregnant with his child, she is faced with a dilemma: how to reconcile her dream of motherhood with an America that is so different from what she imagined.
- ISBN10 1647424933
- ISBN13 9781647424930
- Publish Date 25 July 2023
- Publish Status Transferred
- Publish Country US
- Imprint She Writes Press
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 256
- Language English