The Bakers Daughter

A routine interview between a reporter and an elderly baker brings out memories of darker times her life in Germany during that last bleak year of WWII As their lives become intertwined, all are forced to confront the uncomfortable truths of the past and seek out the courage to forgive.In 1945, Elsie Schmidt is a naive teenager, as eager for her first sip of champagne as she is for her first kiss She and her family have been protected from the worst of the terror and desperation overtaking her country by a high ranking Nazi who wishes to marry her So when an escaped Jewish boy arrives on Elsie s doorstep in the dead of night on Christmas Eve, Elsie understands that opening the door would put all she loves in danger Sixty years later, in El Paso, Texas, Reba Adams is trying to file a feel good Christmas piece for the local magazine Reba is perpetually on the run from memories of a turbulent childhood, but she s been in El Paso long enough to get a full time job and a fianc , Riki Chavez Riki, an agent with the U.S Border Patrol, finds comfort in strict rules and regulations, whereas Reba feels that lines are often blurred Reba s latest assignment has brought her to the shop of an elderly baker across town The interview should take a few hours at most, but the owner of Elsie s German Bakery is no easy subject Reba finds herself returning to the bakery again and again, anxious to find the heart of the story For Elsie, Reba s questions are a stinging reminder of darker times her life in Germany during that last bleak year of WWII And as Elsie, Reba, and Riki s lives become intertwined, all are forced to confront the uncomfortable truths of the past and seek out the courage to forgive. Download The Bakers Daughter – kino-fada.fr ehhhhh, I thought this book was ok I think the author had a theme parallels that highlight that the moral high ground isn t always defined by a bright line, whether US border patrol or a German soldier or citizen pretty ridiculous and executed against it The writing was really lacking for me The parallels felt forced, the characters fell flat, and the book overall came across as a little contrived and even trite The characters felt caricature ish southern writer with depressed dad has tro ehhhhh, I thought this book was ok I think the author had a theme parallels that highlight that the moral high ground isn t always defined by a bright line, whether US border patrol or a German soldier or citizen pretty ridiculous and executed against it The writing was really lacking for me The parallels felt forced, the characters fell flat, and the book overall came across as a little contrived and even trite The characters felt caricatu...I fell in love with the character Elise from the very beginning From the past, in her homeland of Nazi Germany to her current life in El Paso, Texas, the connecting thread a bakery and the baked goods that sustain her and her families souls The present story is also interesting with a woman unsure of the future and her fiance, who works for the border patrol and like Elise in the past begins questioning if what he and his country is doing is right The cruelty of Nazi Germany, the saving of on I fell in love with the character Elise from the very beginning From the past, in her homeland of Nazi Germany to her current life in El Paso, Texas, the connecting thread a bakery and the baked goods that sustain her and her families souls The present story is also interesting with a woman unsure of the future and her fiance, who works for the border patrol and like ...This book ended up being very disappointing, although I thought the plot had a lot of potential It read very much like Sarah s Key, switching back and forth between a modern story and a WWII story in Germany But it had the same problem as Sarah s Key the modern line was almost completely uninteresting, and I just kept waiting to get back to the WWII story I don t think this book was written very well, and it relied mostly on dramatic events to be exciting I prefer books that are written in This book ended up being very disappointing, although I thought the plot had a lot of potential It read very much like Sarah s Key, switching back and forth between a modern story and a WWII story in Germany But it had the same problem as Sarah s Key the modern line was almost completely uninteresting, and I just kept waiting to get back to the WWII story I don t think this book was written very well, and it relied mostly on dramatic events to be exciting I prefer books that are written in a way that makes any event interesting, not just the dramatic ones I often found myself bored and skimming ahead to get to some action I also don t think the characters were very well writtenthey all seemed to be either really flat, or written as if the author hadn t decided yet what who she wanted them to be It might have been a stronger book if it had ended after the main action, but it dragged on for 50 years, ...It seems to be a trend stories with alternating narratives of the past and present I know that for some this mechanism has gotten tiresome but I happen to really enjoy the blending of the past and present, the connecting of stories and characters from different times The place and the circumstances are almost always different and if this is done well, there is something that grabs me as the stories are brought together Sarah McCoy has done just that in this moving novel set in El Paso Texas It seems to be a trend stories with alternating narratives of the past and present I know that for some this mechanism has gotten tiresome but I happen to really enjoy the blending of the past and present, the connecting of stories and characters from different times The place and the circumstances are almost always different and if this is done well, there is something that grabs me as the stories are brought together Sarah McCoy has done just that in this moving novel set in El Paso Texas in 2007 and WW II Nazi Germany.I almost always like the past storythan the present and this was the case here with the moving story of Elsie and her family during WW II in Garmish, Germany The perspective of how the war impacted the Germans, even Naz...I probably need to shy away from anything that is written about Nazi Germany, but there is so much potential for good material there and so much excellence in some of the things already written that I find myself being pulled in again and again Can you say cliche You cannot humanize a man who runs a concentration camp by having him kill a fellow soldier who kills a Jewish woman while arresting her husband Why can t you tell the story of a normal German family who find themselves almost auto I probably need to shy away from anything that is written about Nazi Germany, but there is so much potential for good material there and so much excellence in some of the things already written that I find myself being pulled in again and again Can you say cliche You cannot humanize a man who runs a concentration camp by having him kill a fellow soldier who kills a Jewish woman while arresting her husband Why can t you tell the story of a normal German family who find themselves almost automatically joining the Nazi party, but aren t fanatics, without having the story of a saved Jew interwoven I doubt the American servicemen were so charming that every German girl fell hopelessly in love with one look S...Can t wait to share this novel with you allReview Posted on Reading Lark 3 6 12 Baker s Daughter by Sarah McCoy is one of those books that grabs you and refuses to let you go There are so many elements that rise to the surface with this one that I found myself having to put the novel down and walk away for a bit to digest it all I went through a wide range of emotions while reading this one T...No one is good or bad by birth or nation or religion Inside, we are all masters and slaves, rich and poor, perfect and flawed.I really enjoyed this story about Elsie living in WWII Germany The book shows that all Germans were not active in the atrocities, and that many families were trying to live their normal lives Some of them were also affected by things like the Lebensborn program The aim of this program was to increase the Germanic Nordic population It was basically a place where racia No one is good or bad by birth or nation or religion Inside, we are all masters and slaves, rich and poor, perfect and flawed.I really enjoyed this story about Elsie living in WWII Germany The book shows that all Germans were not active in the atrocities, and that...Given the excellent reviews this book has received, I was disappointed Sarah McCoy s story tracks the life of Elsie the baker s daughter of the title during World War II in Garmisch,Germany, where her family, stalwart National Socialists, runs a bakery, and in present day El Paso, Texas In the El Paso segments, Elsie s story is subordinate to a plot line involving Reba, an American writer and Riki, a Latino bo...What to say It really had the potential to be a great novel, but the non chronological jumping around between families felt like a chore I quite literally could not have cared any less about Reba and Riki and I wish they had been left out of the book altogether After reading a bio of the author I realize that they were meant to be loosely based on her own experience, but truthfully, I found them to be annoying I felt that the author was trying to make a parallel between the US Border Patrol What to say It really had the potential to be a great novel, but the non chronological jumping around between families felt like a chore I quite literally could not have cared any less about Reba and Riki and I wish they had been left out of the book altogether After reading a bio of the author I realize that they were meant to be loose...

• English
• 23 October 2017
Sarah McCoy
• Hardcover
• 279 pages
• 0307460207
• Sarah McCoy
• The Bakers Daughter