Bridge of Scarlet Leaves
  • Published: 25 June 2019
  • ISBN: 9781496725844
  • Imprint: Kensington
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 448
  • RRP: $32.99
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Skillfully capturing one of the most controversial episodes in recent American history, the acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of Sold on a Monday brings to life an interracial love story challenged by war, internment camps and displaced loyalty.

A promising violinist secretly elopes with her Japanese American boyfriend the night before Pearl Harbor is bombed. When he is sentenced to live in one of California’s internment camps, she dares to join him, but soon finds she doesn’t belong on either side…

In this poignant and evocative novel by acclaimed author Kristina McMorris, a country is plunged into conflict and suspicion--forcing a young woman to find her place in a volatile world.

Los Angeles, 1941. Violinist Maddie Kern's life seemed destined to unfold with the predictable elegance of a Bach concerto. Then she fell in love with Lane Moritomo. Her brother's best friend, Lane is the handsome, ambitious son of Japanese immigrants. Maddie was prepared for disapproval from their families, but when Pearl Harbor is bombed the day after she and Lane elope, the full force of their decision becomes apparent. In the eyes of a fearful nation, Lane is no longer just an outsider, but an enemy. 

When her husband is interned at a war relocation camp, Maddie follows, sacrificing her Juilliard ambitions. Behind barbed wire, tension simmers and the line between patriot and traitor blurs. As Maddie strives for the hard-won acceptance of her new family, Lane risks everything to prove his allegiance to America, at tremendous cost. 

Skillfully capturing one of the most controversial episodes in recent American history, Kristina McMorris draws readers into a novel filled with triumphs and heartbreaking loss—an authentic, moving testament to love, forgiveness, and the enduring music of the human spirit.

"Impeccably researched and beautifully written." —Karen White, New York Timesbestselling author
  • Published: 25 June 2019
  • ISBN: 9781496725844
  • Imprint: Kensington
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 448
  • RRP: $32.99
Categories:

About the author

Kristina McMorris

Kristina McMorris is a New York Times bestselling author of two novellas and six novels, including the runaway bestseller Sold on a Monday. Initially inspired by her grandparents’ WWII courtship letters, her works of fiction have garnered more than twenty national literary awards. Prior to her writing career, she owned a wedding-and-event planning company until she had far surpassed her limit of YMCA and chicken dances. She also worked as a weekly TV-show host for Warner Bros. and an ABC affiliate, beginning at age nine with an Emmy Award-winning program. A graduate of Pepperdine University, she lives near Portland, Oregon, where (ironically) she’s entirely deficient of a green thumb and doesn’t own a single umbrella.

Also by Kristina McMorris

The Girls of Good Fortune
Ellie Mae Dreams Big!
The Season of Second Chances
Ways We Hide
Sold on a Monday
The Pieces We Keep
Letters from Home
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Praise for Bridge of Scarlet Leaves

"Readers of World War II fiction will devour Kristina McMorris's Bridge of Scarlet Leaves, a poignant, authentic story of Japanese and American lovers crossed not only by the stars but by the vagaries of war and their own country's prejudices —Jenna Blum, New York Times bestselling author of Those Who Save Us

"Impeccably researched and beautifully written." —Karen White, New York Times bestselling author

"McMorris's second novel...gracefully blossoms through swift prose and rich characters. This gripping story about two "brothers" in arms and a young woman caught in between them hits all the right chords." —Publishers Weekly

"[McMorris] creates a believable world...all while perfectly capturing the flavor of the period. A sweeping yet intimate novel that will please both romantics and lovers of American history." —Kirkus Reviews

"Rich in historical detail, peopled with well-developed characters, and spiced with tension and drama, Bridge of Scarlet Leaves is a novel to savor, and then to share with a friend." —Historical Novels Review

Praise for Kristina McMorris's other novels

"Richly woven and absorbing tale... compelling tale of survival and second chances, and of one immigrant's fantastic journey in the first decades of the 20th century." —The Boston Globe on The Edge of Lost

"The reader traipses through the early 1900s from Dublin bars to 19th-century Brooklyn, N.Y. We meet historical figures in passing like the vaudeville performer George M. Cohan and Al Capone along the way...Themes of shifting identity and assimilation run through the book." —The Portland Tribune on The Edge of Lost

"Kristina McMorris evokes such a strong sense of place that to open her books feels less like reading and more like traveling. Her absorbing new novel..[is an] epic, deeply felt tale of struggle and sec¬ond chances... a trans¬porting piece of historical fiction." —BookPage on The Edge of Lost

"A vivid and original story... McMorris brilliantly chronicles the way in which a moment's fateful choice can result in a lifetime of harrowing consequences. A masterpiece that poignantly echoes universal themes of loss and redemption, Sold on a Monday is both heartfelt and heartbreaking." —Pam Jenoff, New York Times bestselling author of The Orphan's Tale on Sold on a Monday

"A riveting tale that holds surprising resonance for today's news climate." —Toronto Star on Sold on a Monday

"McMorris's attention to historical detail captures the poignancy of old letters or treasured relics that have borne witness to ancestral emotions." —The Bellingham Herald on The Pieces We Keep

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