BLOOD STAINS ON OLD LEATHER
BLOOD STAINS ON OLD LEATHER – JIM TRUCK
Seventeen-year-old Sarah Roberts is smart, quirky, spoiled, and—stubborn. When she notices her great aunt’s forgotten dusty old trunk in the hazy glow of an attic window of her palatial home, her curiosity overrides her father’s warnings that it is “off-limits” and “There will be consequences. . .”
As soon as she raises the lid, Sarah knows she has made a mistake, but having destroyed the locks, she sorts through the contents anyway. Inside, she finds blood-stained leather journals with German writing, along with other keepsakes, including a tattered tote bag wrapped around a heavy pistol and a clip of ammunition. In an ambered plastic case is a photograph of a German soldier and World War II-era medals, including an Iron Cross.
The first journal entry was made on April 28, 1945. Sarah could interpret enough to discern that she and her namesake shared the same birth month and date and that she was also seventeen when she made the entry.
After Sarah enlists the aid of a German exchange student to help with the translation, he stuns her with the revelation that her relative was a Jewish escapee from a Nazi concentration camp during World War II.
When she finally approaches her mother to confess her misdeed, Sarah learns that her parents’ marriage is falling apart, and they must flee the wrath of her abusive father. That is when Sarah’s real journey of discovery begins. This is a multi-generational, coming-of-age tale about the things that stir the sleeping passions of the heart and push back the curtains of time to reveal the hidden secrets that
distinguish the fundamental elements of what makes up a family.
BLOOD STAINS ON OLD LEATHER – JIM TRUCK
Seventeen-year-old Sarah Roberts is smart, quirky, spoiled, and—stubborn. When she notices her great aunt’s forgotten dusty old trunk in the hazy glow of an attic window of her palatial home, her curiosity overrides her father’s warnings that it is “off-limits” and “There will be consequences. . .”
As soon as she raises the lid, Sarah knows she has made a mistake, but having destroyed the locks, she sorts through the contents anyway. Inside, she finds blood-stained leather journals with German writing, along with other keepsakes, including a tattered tote bag wrapped around a heavy pistol and a clip of ammunition. In an ambered plastic case is a photograph of a German soldier and World War II-era medals, including an Iron Cross.
The first journal entry was made on April 28, 1945. Sarah could interpret enough to discern that she and her namesake shared the same birth month and date and that she was also seventeen when she made the entry.
After Sarah enlists the aid of a German exchange student to help with the translation, he stuns her with the revelation that her relative was a Jewish escapee from a Nazi concentration camp during World War II.
When she finally approaches her mother to confess her misdeed, Sarah learns that her parents’ marriage is falling apart, and they must flee the wrath of her abusive father. That is when Sarah’s real journey of discovery begins. This is a multi-generational, coming-of-age tale about the things that stir the sleeping passions of the heart and push back the curtains of time to reveal the hidden secrets that
distinguish the fundamental elements of what makes up a family.
