The Last Year of the War by Susan Meissner
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Keep your hankies nearby. This book brought tears to my eyes on several times. The book starts out with Elise Sontage Dove as an elderly woman. She knows she has Alzheimer's disease. She knows this dreadful disease will eventually claim all her memories but she wants to see her childhood friend Mariko before the disease robs her of everything. Most of the story is told of her memories of her family living in an internment camp. Even though her German family had been living in the states for many years they were still looked on with suspicion by the US government during the World War 2 era. While at the internment camp she meets her best friend Mariko. Mariko's family is Japanese. This book was well written and even though it is not classified as Christian fiction, this book was clean with no offensive language or sex scenes. People who enjoy historical fiction will enjoy reading this book.


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