In a novel both intimate and expansive, World War II comes to a farm through a crew of Nazi prisoners, and each of the family members must reckon with the legacies of violence and the imperfections of love and forgiveness.It is the summer of 1944, and the war has come to Maine.Ever since her father was killed overseas and her brother enlisted, Melanie Kitchen has been doing all she can to run the family’s potato farm. So when the army opens a prison camp in...

In a novel both intimate and expansive, World War II comes to a farm through a crew of Nazi prisoners, and each of the family members must reckon with the legacies of violence and the imperfections of love and forgiveness.It is the summer of 1944, and the war has come to Maine.Ever since her father was killed overseas and her brother enlisted, Melanie Kitchen has been doing all she can to run the family’s potato farm. So when the army opens a prison camp in...