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by Sarah McCoy
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Muriellerites
Muriellerites rated it 9 years ago
In Sarah McCoy’s novel, The Baker's Daughter, you'll find lots of historical data about the daily lives and fears of German women living during. You'll also get an insight in how to operate a bakery when flour and sugar are almost nonexistent and only doled out by Nazi operators. Women are a commodi...
jbarrett5 book reviews, etc
jbarrett5 book reviews, etc rated it 11 years ago
The Baker's Daughter by Sarah McCoyLove that this book is the story of a baker. Elsa is the baker.Present day: Reba is a journalist and wants to write a story about Elsa and her journey from Germany to the US and her bakery career.Story also goes back in time, alternating chapters to when Elsa was a...
pam
pam rated it 11 years ago
This was so good! This is, yet another, WWII story. This is NOT the usual WWII story. It is a story told from the perspective of a 'good' German family trying to live their lives according to the Nazi doctrine. They struggle with trying to scratch out a living as bakers and trying to keep their f...
A Book Addict's Musings by Readinghearts
The Baker's Daughter is really a story within a story. In the set-up story Reba Allen, a writer for a local magazine in El Paso, Texas, is assigned to write a fluff piece about the Christmas customs of the various cultures that make up the melting pot that is El Paso. In pursuit of this, she decides...
misfitgeek
misfitgeek rated it 11 years ago
This is a poignant tale that spans decades and shows us what true courage and beauty is. I really loved this book from prologue to epilogue. I was transported to a different time and place, and back, flawlessly. Ms. McCoy did a masterful job of using letter writing and email correspondence to hel...
Boston Bibliophile
Boston Bibliophile rated it 12 years ago
Suspenseful, attention-keeping novel about a German woman struggling with life under Nazism and a parallel story about a reporter in present-day Texas with her own life/love issues. Think Sarah's Key meets The Book Thief. It's a fine novel that will be popular with book clubs and fans of Holocaust/W...
the litwit misfit
the litwit misfit rated it 12 years ago
florinda3rs
florinda3rs rated it 12 years ago
In The Baker’s Daughter, Sarah McCoy covers an impressive amount of story within an economical 300 pages. In brief chapters that shift between past and present narratives, she explores the life of a German baker’s family during the last months of the Third Reich, the modern-day personal conflicts of...
drey's library
drey's library rated it 12 years ago
The Baker’s Daughter is a story about a girl who grows up in wartime Germany, and the impact of the war on her family and her life. It is also the story of a woman who has to figure out what she really wants out of life – lucky as she is to have one that’s nowhere near as complicated as Elsie’s was....
Unabridged Chick
Unabridged Chick rated it 13 years ago
I started this book and felt a bit stony about the story: the writing felt kind of casually journalistic, like an A&E piece in a local paper, and rather snobbily I thought this might be a topical, fluffy read. After picking up the book yesterday morning in bed, I had my nose in it on my walk to the...
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