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_01_Title

    Duration: 11s
  • CherryHarvest_02_Ch1

    Duration: 22min
  • CherryHarvest_03_Ch2

    Duration: 13min
  • CherryHarvest_04_Ch3

    Duration: 19min
  • CherryHarvest_05_Ch4

    Duration: 11min
  • CherryHarvest_06_Ch5

    Duration: 12min
  • CherryHarvest_07_Ch6

    Duration: 16min
  • CherryHarvest_08_Ch7

    Duration: 14min
  • CherryHarvest_09_Ch8

    Duration: 29min
  • CherryHarvest_10_Ch9

    Duration: 15min
  • CherryHarvest_11_Ch10

    Duration: 01min
  • CherryHarvest_12_Ch11

    Duration: 31min
  • CherryHarvest_13_Ch12

    Duration: 04min
  • CherryHarvest_14_Ch13

    Duration: 10min
  • CherryHarvest_15_Ch14

    Duration: 11min
  • CherryHarvest_16_Ch15

    Duration: 06min
  • CherryHarvest_17_Ch16

    Duration: 20min
  • CherryHarvest_18_Ch17

    Duration: 04min
  • CherryHarvest_19_Ch18

    Duration: 18min
  • CherryHarvest_20_Ch19

    Duration: 33min
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