All the Little Hopes: A Novel

Product Description A Southern story of friendship forged by books and bees, when the timeless troubles of growing up meet the murky shadows of World War II.Deep in the tobacco land of North Carolina, nothings been the same since the boys shipped off to war and worry took their place. Thirteen-year-old Lucy Brown is precocious and itching for adventure. Then Allie Bert Tucker wanders into town, an outcast with a puzzling past, and Lucy figures the two of them can solve any curious crime they findjust like her hero, Nancy Drew.Their chance comes when a man goes missing, a woman stops speaking, and an eccentric gives the girls a mystery to solve that takes them beyond the ordinary. Their quiet town, seasoned with honeybees and sweet tea, becomes home to a Nazi prisoner-of-war camp. More men go missing. And together, the girls embark on a journey to discover if we ever really know who the enemy is.Lush with Southern atmosphere, All The Little Hopes is the story of two girls growing up as war creeps closer, blurring the difference between whats right, whats wrong, and what we know to be true. Review Small town North Carolina during WWII is brought vividly to life with German prisoners, missing husbands, and hidden stories. All the Little Hopes is abuzz with fascinating charactersAunt Fanniebelle, Trula Freed, and especially Bert and Lu, two very different girls on the cusp of adulthood, learning about lifes mysteries as they play Nancy Drew and investigate three puzzling disappearances. Lush, poetic prose, characters youll not forget, and immersion in a past that has lessons for today make this a compelling read. - Vicki Lane, author of And the Crows Took Their Eyes and the Elizabeth Goodweather Appalachian MysteriesAll the Little Hopes is as warm-hearted as the sun that beats down on Lus familys tobacco fields. With feisty heroines and a fascinating yet little-known piece of American history as a backdrop, this is a coming-of-age story with a mystery at its heart. Yet the novels crowning achievement is Weisss creation of the Browns - a family that, in keeping with the best literary traditions, every reader will long to be a part of. - Kate Moore, author of the New York Times bestseller The Radium Girls and The Woman They Could Not SilenceLike all great southern writers, Leah Weisss magic turns the local into the universal. All the Little Hopes is both a deep-dive into the life of a North Carolina town during WWII and a national portrait of an era with all of its attendant glories and pains. I love this coming-of-age novel - its portrayal of friendship, the complications of family, the threats that outsiders can bring. Lucy Brown and Allie Bert Tucker will break your heart, but Leah Weisss beautiful writing will sew it back together again. - Wiley Cash, New York Times bestselling author of A Land More Kind than Home and When Ghosts Come HomeWrapped in hope and mystery, this beautifully crafted story, set under a warm North Carolina sun, is full of heart. You wont want to miss this one. - Kathleen Grissom, New York Times bestselling author of The Kitchen House and Glory Over EverythingWith her latest novel All the Little Hopes, Leah Weiss confirms the place shes earned among top-notch historical fiction writers. Her thrilling, coming-of-age story of two young girls in the tobacco country of the Carolinas, growing up in the shadow of World War II, is compelling, alarming, and heart-breakingly satisfying. It grippingly explores the mysteries of one of my favorite themes: Who can really be trusted when the chips are down? - David Gillham, New York Times bestselling author of City of Women and AnnaliesLeah Weiss has done it again. Another powerful, masterly observed story. This time, firmly setting us down in tobacco land North Carolina with two teenaged girls at its heart and told in language that is uniquely Leahs. I read the novel with my jaw dropped open. For Leahs fans, prepa