First Line Friday

First Line Friday | Week 155 | Things We Didn’t Say by Amy Lynn Green

It’s First Line Friday! That means it’s time to pick up the nearest book and quote the first line. Today I’m sharing from Things We Didn’t Say, a unique debut from by Amy Lynn Green. Here’s the first line from the Prologue:

If I were an expert in criminal law, I'd be sick to death of outraged clients claiming to be falsely accursed, and especially of weepy female clients wringing their hands.

What’s the book nearest you, and what’s the first line?

 

About Things We Didn’t Say

Headstrong Johanna Berglund, a linguistics student at the University of Minnesota, has very definite plans for her future . . . plans that do not include returning to her hometown and the secrets and heartaches she left behind there. But the US Army wants her to work as a translator at a nearby camp for German POWs.

Johanna arrives to find the once-sleepy town exploding with hostility. Most patriotic citizens want nothing to do with German soldiers laboring in their fields, and they’re not afraid to criticize those who work at the camp as well. When Johanna describes the trouble to her friend Peter Ito, a language instructor at a school for military intelligence officers, he encourages her to give the town that rejected her a second chance.

As Johanna interacts with the men of the camp and censors their letters home, she begins to see the prisoners in a more sympathetic light. But advocating for better treatment makes her enemies in the community, especially when charismatic German spokesman Stefan Werner begins to show interest in Johanna and her work. The longer Johanna wages her home-front battle, the more the lines between compassion and treason become blurred–and it’s no longer clear whom she can trust.

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