Summer of My German Soldier | Patricia Ann Bergen
Patricia (also known as Patty and Honey Babe) is the young protagonist of Summer of My German Soldier. Lonely and frustrated, she shelters an escaped German POW and ends up being put on trial for treason. She is an outcast in multiple ways: because she is Jewish; her family is wealthy; and she is perceived as a failure by her parents. By the end of the novel, Patty has also become an outcast from her country—her unpatriotic harboring of a POW is judged to be treason.
Patty strongly feels this isolation. She copes with her boredom, frustration, and loneliness by...
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