Store Events - June 26, 12:00 p.m.

Discussion will center on Elizabeth Berg's latest paperback, Dream When You're Feeling Blue.
This story of homefront Chicago during World War II is by turns joyful and melancholy, but always engaging.
If you enjoyed Ms.Berg's May visit to Book Vault, bring your lunch and join our discussion.

Dream When You're Feeling Blue
by Berg, Elizabeth
Format:  Trade Paperback
Price:  $14.00
Published: Ballantine Books, 2008
Inventory Status: On Our Shelves Now

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"New York Times" bestselling author Elizabeth Berg takes us to Chicago at the time of World War II in this wonderful story about three sisters, their lively Irish family, and the men they love.
As the novel opens, Kitty and Louise Heaney say good-bye to their boyfriends Julian and Michael, who are going to fight overseas. On the domestic front, meat is rationed, children participate in metal drives, and Tommy Dorsey and Glenn Miller play songs that offer hope and lift spirits. And now the Heaney sisters sit at their kitchen table every evening to write letters-Louise to her fiance, Kitty to the man she wishes fervently would propose, and Tish to an ever-changing group of men she meets at USO dances. In the letters the sisters send and receive are intimate glimpses of life both on the battlefront and at home. For Kitty, a confident, headstrong young woman, the departure of her boyfriend and the lessons she learns about love, resilience, and war will bring a surprise and a secret, and will lead her to a radical action for those she loves. The lifelong consequences of the choices the Heaney sisters make are at the heart of this superb novel about the power of love and the enduring strength of family.

"From the Hardcover edition."