A Long Year of Silence

by Kathryn Adams Doty

Book Overview

A sixteen-year-old minister's daughter, Emma faces relationship challenges with her parents and her peers when the United States enters World War I and anti-German hysteria sweeps through New Ulm,... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1889020133
• ISBN13: 9781889020136
• Release Date: June 2004
• Publisher: Edinborough Press
• Length: 197 Pages
• Weight: 0.76 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

Based upon a neglected bit of 20th Century American history

The personal world of 16-year old Emma Altenberg is turned upside down and inside out when the United States enters World War I and an anti-German hysteria sweeps through New Ulm, Minnesota. The patriotic hysteria of war fanning anti-German prejudice disrupts the lives of friends and family. Emma finds herself struggling with the the changes taking place within her family and with her peers. Author Kathryn Adams Doty draws upon her personal history of having been born in New Ulm, Minnesota as the daughter of Anna and Christian Hohn (who was pastor of the German Methodist Church) to provide this outstanding and highly recommended novel with a true touch of authenticity based upon a neglected bit of 20th Century American midwestern history.