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▼▲Mathilda Nissim watches in horror as the Germans invade her beloved city of Salonika, Greece. What angers her most is the lack of resistance her people put up to their captors. In secret and at great risk to her life, she continues to publish her newspaper, calling her people to action. She doesn’t trust God to help them. When she and her husband find out they are expecting a child, Mathilda may have to resort to desperate measures to ensure her daughter’s survival.
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▼▲Title: What I Would Tell You By: Liz Tolsma Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 Vendor: Barbour Fiction Publication Date: 2023 | Dimensions: 8.38 X 5.50 (inches) Weight: 10 ounces ISBN: 1636094597 ISBN-13: 9781636094595 Stock No: WW094595 |
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▼▲1941The pounding of Nazi boots on the streets of Salonika, Greece, reverberates in Mathilda Nissims ears, shaking her large community of Sephardic Jews to its core and altering her life forever. If only her people would rise up and resist their captors. At great risk to herself and those around her, she uses the small newspaper she publishes to call them to action, all to no avail. Her husband encourages her to trust God to watch over them, but God has once again deserted His people. Amid the chaos, Mathilda discovers shes expecting a longed-for child. Still, nothing stops the occupiers noose from tightening around their necks, and she may have to resort to desperate measures to ensure her daughters survival.
2019College student Tessa Payton and her cousin take a popular DNA heritage test only to discover they dont share any common ancestors. In fact, the test reveals Tessa is a Greek Sephardic Jew. This revelation threatens her tenuous faith. Always the overlooked child in her family, she empties her savings account and jets off on a journey to Greece to discover where she belongs and which God demands her allegiance. The enchanting curator at the Jewish museum guides her as she navigates life in Thessaloniki, helps with her genealogical research, and loans her a fascinating journal written by a Jewish woman during WWII. Tessas search, however, may open old wounds and uncover long-hidden secrets that could fracture her family forever and leave her with more questions than when she started.
Based in part on true accounts of Jews in Salonika, Greece, What I Would Tell You traces two womens journeys, delving into what faith looks like and where it leads us as they navigate difficult circumstances and impossible choices that have ripple effects across the years.
- Split time fiction: WWII and 2019
- Stand-alone novel
- Approximate book length: 91,000 words
- Includes authors notes
Author Bio
▼▲Liz Tolsma is the author of several WWII novels, romantic suspense novels, prairie romance novellas, and an Amish romance. She is a popular speaker and an editor and resides next to a Wisconsin farm field with her husband and their youngest daughter. Her son is a US Marine, and her oldest daughter is a college student. Liz enjoys reading, walking, working in her large perennial garden, kayaking, and camping. Please visit her website at www.liztolsma.com and follow her on Facebook, Twitter (@LizTolsma), Instagram, YouTube, and Pinterest. She is also the host of the Christian Historical Fiction Talk podcast.
Editorial Reviews
▼▲Once again Liz Tolsma has delivered a novel so carefully researched, so beautifully composed, that the reader can't help but step into the shoes of the characters. What I Would Tell You is a book that could only be told by a storyteller with a high regard for history, a love for the reader, and a deep well of empathy. Tolsma is such a writer. You'll want to hold this story close to your heart.
- Susie Finkbeiner, author of The Nature of Small Birds and Stories That Bind Us
Liz Tolsmas stirring dual time novel, What I Would Tell You, sheds light on an unfamiliar and intriguing piece of World War II history combined with a vivid and immersive setting in Greece amid the terror the Third Reich brought to Jews in the city of Salonika. Three generations later in the same city now known as Thessaloniki, a young American woman has her ancestral identity shaken by the results of a DNA test, offering an unforgettable glimpse into how present-day technology can not only connect us to the past but also forever alter our future. A hope-filled, well-written story of two courageous women forging their places in the world, unafraid of confronting history and holding on to their faith.
- Morgan Tarpley Smith, author and founder of A Split in Time Fiction Facebook Group for split time fiction readers and writers
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