What We Leave Behind

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.

Author: Christine Gallagher Kearney
Publisher: She Writes Press
Published: 07/25/2023
Pages: 256
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.05lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.50w x 1.10d
ISBN13: 9781647424930
ISBN10: 1647424933
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Women
- Fiction | Disabilities
- Fiction | Historical | 20th Century | World War II