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The
Minefield of Memories
Karina Wetherbee
About the Author
A native of Colorado, Karina
Wetherbee, lives
with her husband and three children in Columbus, Ohio. Trained
as a photographer, her skills have taken her throughout
Europe and the Far East. Her true inspiration, though, lies
in the peaks and valleys of her childhood home, Keystone, Colorado.
This is her first book.
About the Book
The world knows of the horrors Hitler
unleashed upon an entire race of people, but, what of the
countless other lives torn apart? This is the story of one
such innocent, a young Austrian boy who struggles to find
meaning and hope amidst the chaos and horror of World War
II.
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The calm of Alfie’s
childhood in the heart of Sudetenland is surrounded and eventually
destroyed as Hitler’s
greed consumes all of Europe. Left behind by his fleeing
family, Alfie is separated from all he holds dear. He sets
out on a journey of survival and discovery--as agonizing
loneliness, witnessed brutalities, and numbing hunger all
determine to break Alfie’s faith in those around him. Alfie
must navigate the many minefields, real and psychological
that lurk before him in his uncertain future and behind him
in his troubled past. Even upon Alfie’s eventual escape
to America, the very idea of family is thrown into question,
as long buried secrets are revealed. Throughout this story
of love and loyalty, war and renewal, betrayal and trust,
Alfie finds that the most difficult road he faces is the
beleaguered path of his own memories.
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