WHITE PICKET FENCES
By: Susan Meissner
Published by: Waterbrook
ISBN#978-1-4000-7457-0 358 Pages

Back Cover: When the storybook-perfect Janvier family temporarily “adopts” their teenaged niece, Tally, they assume they’ll be helping her. But when Tally befriends her cousin, Chase, she soon realizes that he badly needs
encouragement, too. When the troubled teens interview two holocaust survivors for a sociology project, will they trigger the healing process that everybody needs?

MY REVIEW: White Picket Fences
by Susan Meissner
I received a review copy of White Picket Fences from Waterbrook/Random House. Susan is building a reputation as not only a fine storyteller, but a skillful and sensitve writer. White Picket Fences poses some interesting story questions and weaves in history as a way of deepening the characters and the story. I would have liked the story to start a little bit quicker, but I stuck with it and was pleasantly surprised at the tenderness and dignity with which she treated the characters and the Holocaust history. Heartwarming and real.
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