The third bend in the “winding river” is Johanna and the role she plays in living out her own mathmatical dreams as she finds it more and more difficult to hide her Jewish ancestry, while actually working for the Nazi’s in order to survive and avoid the concentration camps. The descriptions and details of the area and the lengthy battle with no clear victor, is a different perspective of the war. The author chooses to focus on Max and his medic experiences in a lesser known battle that raged for three months in Hurtgen Forest, known as the Death Factory, rather than the D-Day beaches of Normandy. Beth’s father, Max, is living out his last days in a private care facility while Beth is doing all she can to organize his affairs while sorting out his memorabilia and learning about his war- time experiences.
Readers will identify with Beth, a modern-day woman grieving the loss of her mother and also beginning to recognize and accept herself-recently divorced and adjusting to a new social standing. All three walk a delicate line between memories and truth. “A woman unlocks the mystery of her father’s wartime past in a moving novel about secrets, sacrifice, and the power of love…”Īcross the Winding River follows the “hearts and minds” of Max, a young American soldier during WWll Beth, his daughter’s search for clues to a long, lost secret sibling, and Johanna, the brilliant German test pilot in the Luftwaffe for the Nazi’s. She lives in Colorado with her wonderful husband and two (usually) adorable children.” She is active as an educator and speaker in the writing community and beyond. She is the author of historical novels: Promised to the Crown, Duty to the Crown, Daughters of the Night Sky, and Girls on the Line.
Runyan writes to celebrate history’s unsung heroines.
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