Letters Across The Sea by Genieve Graham

This story begins in a modest Canadian town where a favorite pastime is for families to gather and cheer on their favorite baseball teams. The hateful murmurings from abroad arrive and the community falters. Specifically, two families who have lived across the street from one another and the children have been close friends all their lives. Hate dictates that they question everything they’ve always known, and some make regretful choices with life changing consequences. The thing about opinions...they can change. Thankfully some were lucky enough to right their wrongs before it was too late. 

In my opinion this book reads primarily as a love story. The historical fiction portion of it felt more like scenery — descriptions of time and place for a nice backdrop that will keep historical fiction readers interested. The soldier’s letters home, the battles, and the homecoming portrayals of the wounded soldiers were written in a very believable way as were the stories told (via main characters newspaper reports) of the POW conditions abroad and for the Japanese in Canada. 

Thank you to #Netgalley, #SimonAndSchusterCanada, and #GenieveGraham for the opportunity to preview this book in exchange for an honest review.