Summer of My German Soldier | Review of Morning Is a Long Time Coming
In the following review, Forman evaluates the sequel to Summer of My German Soldier, finding the depiction of the relationship of the same heroine to her new love-interest Roger to be strained, but the depiction of a "Southern Jewish family in the 1940s" to be "strong and honest."
[Morning Is a Long Time Coming, an] autobiographical novel four years after the author's The Summer of My German Soldier ... opens in the same small Arkansas town. Still alienated from her father, mother, and grandparents, Patty Bergen graduates from high school, then sets out for Europe instead of going to college. In France Patty has her first love affair with a young teacher, Roger, but feels torn between him and her need to find the parents of the German POW she once unsuccessfully hid (recorded in Greene's first novel). Wracked by a bleeding ulcer brought on by...
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