Good Things Coming in the Summer for War in My Town and A Room of Your Own Book Club

It's so good to hear from old friends, but when they tell you that your Mother's WWII memoir will be read by teen girls across Canada, and possibly in the U.S.A. as a summer book club reading project...these friends become golden. Thank you to Tanya Marie Lee for all she does to support and promote reading in Toronto and now across Canada and the U.S.A. ...and for choosing War in My Town.

As I said, War in My Town, is a WWII memoir for young adult readers. It is about Bruna, my mother who is the youngest of seven children, living an idyllic life in a small Italian village in northern Tuscany. Though the Second World War has been raging in Europe for some time, the dangers haven’t seemed to reach her, and the Italian leader Mussolini’s allegiance with Hitler and the distant reports of fighting seem far away. But before long, Bruna's brothers are called to fight and by 1943 food rationing and shortages begin to take a toll on her family. Soon the Italian people turn against their fascist regime and war comes to the region. When the retreating Nazis occupy her village, Bruna struggles to cope and help her mother and sisters stand up to the soldiers. Her peaceful life is shattered when her village and its occupants find themselves in the centre of the final stages of fighting between the Nazis and the Allied forces pursuing them - the final front defended by the Nazis in Europe. This important book chronicles my mother, Bruna's life in her beloved village, Eglio, in Tuscany. A true story.

I'll keep you posted about further developments, but if Tanya has anything to do with it, it'll be a powerhouse of a summer reading club!