The Cherry Harvest

  • Author: Lucy Sanna
  • Narrator: Suzanne Toren
  • Publisher: HarperCollins USA
  • Duration: 9:12:38
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Synopsis

A powerfully sensuous and gripping debut laced with suspense, The Cherry Harvest reveals a hidden side of World War II's home front, when German POWs are put to work in a Wisconsin farm community . . . with dark and unexpected consequences

It's the summer of 1944 in Door County, Wisconsin, where even the lush cherry orchards and green lakeside farms can't escape the ravages of war. With food rationed and money scarce, the Christiansen family struggles to hold on. The family's teenage daughter, Kate, raises rabbits to save money for college, while her mother, Charlotte, barters what she can to make ends meet. Charlotte's husband, Thomas, strives to keep the orchard going while their son—along with most of the other able-bodied men—is fighting overseas. With the upcoming harvest threatened by the labor shortage, strong-willed Charlotte helps persuade local authorities to allow German war prisoners from a nearby POW camp to pick the fruit.

But when Thomas befriends one of the prisoners, a math teacher named Karl, and invites him to tutor Kate, both Charlotte and Kate are swept into a world where love, duty, and honor are not as clear-cut as they might have believed. Charlotte and Thomas fail to see that Kate is becoming a young woman, with dreams and temptations of her own. And when their beloved son, Ben, returns from the battlefield, wounded and bitter, the secrets they've all been keeping threaten to explode their world.

Chapters

  • CherryHarvest_21_Ch20

    Duration: 01min
  • CherryHarvest_22_Ch21

    Duration: 12min
  • CherryHarvest_23_Ch22

    Duration: 02min
  • CherryHarvest_24_Ch23

    Duration: 06min
  • CherryHarvest_25_Ch24

    Duration: 06min
  • CherryHarvest_26_Ch25

    Duration: 10min
  • CherryHarvest_27_Ch26

    Duration: 05min
  • CherryHarvest_28_Ch27

    Duration: 54s
  • CherryHarvest_29_Ch28

    Duration: 03min
  • CherryHarvest_30_Ch29

    Duration: 35min
  • CherryHarvest_31_Ch30

    Duration: 06min
  • CherryHarvest_32_Ch31

    Duration: 07min
  • CherryHarvest_33_Ch32

    Duration: 04min
  • CherryHarvest_34_Ch33

    Duration: 11min
  • CherryHarvest_35_Ch34

    Duration: 08min
  • CherryHarvest_36_Ch35

    Duration: 03min
  • CherryHarvest_37_Ch36

    Duration: 09min
  • CherryHarvest_38_Ch37

    Duration: 16min
  • CherryHarvest_39_Ch38

    Duration: 12min
  • CherryHarvest_40_Ch39

    Duration: 16min
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