Serendipity’s Footsteps by Suzanne Nelson
Suzanne Nelson takes you on a journey that covers the past,
Berlin 1940’s and present day, three women whose lives will intersect. This book is about shoes, but so much more,
it is the journeys one takes in them and how our lives come together with these
journeys. She takes us on a fabulous
journey that will make you forget your present-day obligations and make you
want to stay with the journeys of these women to see what is going to happen
next! How will she ever get these three
women to come together and where in their journeys will it happen? This is an awesome book with true history
woven in with fiction, I learned some more about the camps that the Jewish
people were forced to live in that I didn’t know until I took this journey it
was a piece of history! You really need
to pick this book up and let it take you on your journey with these three women
and the people that they meet, it is definitely a five star book. I want to follow this author and see what she
comes up with next because the way her mind works is worth waiting for the next
book and I’m sure it will be as wonderful as this book was! A fabulous writer! The book was supposed to be geared toward the
young adult but that didn’t make it any less interesting for me.
I won this book through Good Reads; the author hopes that
winners will write an honest review of the book which I did!
Description of book as found on Amazon: From Nazi Germany to a modern-day orphanage in
the American South, three girls separated by decades and thousands of miles are
about to give up when a single pair of shoes binds them all together.
Dalya is the daughter of a cobbler in 1930s Berlin, and though she is only fifteen, she knows she will follow in her father’s footsteps. When she is forced into a concentration camp one violent November night, she must leave behind everything she knew and loved.
Ray is a modern-day orphan, jagged around the edges in every possible way. She sees an impulsive escape to New York as her only chance at happiness; there, she knows she’ll be able to convert her sorrows into songs.
Pinny is an unwavering optimist and Ray’s unintended travel companion on her passage to a new life. She inherited from her eccentric mother a fascination with shoes as a means of transformation and expression.
A single pair of shoes entwines these lives. How these women connect across different times and places is an unforgettable story of strength, love, bravery, memory, and the serendipity that binds us all together.
Dalya is the daughter of a cobbler in 1930s Berlin, and though she is only fifteen, she knows she will follow in her father’s footsteps. When she is forced into a concentration camp one violent November night, she must leave behind everything she knew and loved.
Ray is a modern-day orphan, jagged around the edges in every possible way. She sees an impulsive escape to New York as her only chance at happiness; there, she knows she’ll be able to convert her sorrows into songs.
Pinny is an unwavering optimist and Ray’s unintended travel companion on her passage to a new life. She inherited from her eccentric mother a fascination with shoes as a means of transformation and expression.
A single pair of shoes entwines these lives. How these women connect across different times and places is an unforgettable story of strength, love, bravery, memory, and the serendipity that binds us all together.
Information on Author Suzanne
Nelson as found on Amazon:
When she was in kindergarten,
Suzanne Nelson jotted down in a school keepsake album that she wanted to be a “river.”
Though she clearly had issues with spelling, she persisted, composing cryptic
poems about rainbows, fairies, mud, and even "Star Wars" in spiral
notebooks all through elementary school. When she was seventeen, she filled
four journals with her handwritten first novel, titled “The Dream Keeper.” To
escape her chores, she often lied to her parents about what time her shift
started at the local fast food joint so that she could spend an extra hour
writing in the parking lot in her mom’s faded Buick. Her first published novel
was The Sound of Munich, followed by Heart and Salsa, The Ghoul Next Door, Cake
Pop Crush, and Dead in the Water. She is a shameless fan of “The Sound of
Music,” Hershey’s kisses, Charlotte Bronte, and Jane Austen, and can often be
caught daydreaming of romping about gothic castles in lovely Victorian gowns.
She was born in New Jersey, grew up in Southern California, attended college in
Texas, and spent eight years as a children’s book editor in New York City. She
now lives in Ridgefield, Connecticut with her family. (less)
