What We Leave Behind

By Christine Gallagher Kearney

In 1947, war bride Ursula arrives in Minneapolis torn between guilt over leaving loved ones behind and her desire to start a new life--and a family--in this promised land. But the American dream proves elusive--she is struck with polio, and then shocked by the sudden death of her GI husband.

Without a spouse or the child she so desperately wanted, Ursula must rely on her shrewd survival skills from wartime Berlin, and she takes in a boarder to help make ends meet. She soon falls in love with the Argentinean medical technician living in her spare bedroom, but his devotion to communism troubles her--and when she finds herself pregnant with his child, she is faced with a dilemma: how to reconcile her dream of motherhood with an America that is so different from what she imagined.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1647424933
• ISBN13: 9781647424930
• Release Date: July 2023
• Publisher: She Writes Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.5" x 8.4"