"Chiaverini builds a believable domestic sphere in which the women surrounding Mary—women who have also mourned the losses of husbands and children—try to puzzle out when she began to lose her sanity and whether her griefs truly transcend their own...An engaging glimpse of women’s privilege and ... Read more »
Praise
MLS: Booklist
“Through meticulously researched historical detail and sympathetic portrayal of each character, including Mary herself, Chiaverini provides a fascinating glimpse into the women of an influential family on the front lines of some of the most important moments of that indelible time.” —Booklist ... Read more »
TCB: Kirkus
"Celebrating the 20th anniversary of the first novel in her extensive Elm Creek Quilts series, Chiaverini's (Resistance Women, 2019, etc.) latest installment is rich with detail: Each chapter reads like a short story, telling the tale of a particular woman's motivation to design and craft a ... Read more »
RW: West Virginia News
"Jennifer Chiaverini takes the World War II novel to new heights with the story of a brilliant graduate student from Wisconsin who marries a promising German economist. Settling in 1930s Berlin, Mildred soon realizes what a threat Hitler and the rise of Nazism is and creates a resistance cell to ... Read more »
RW: Jersey’s Best
"An enthralling, insightful historical saga of Nazism resistance...This is an historical novel in the best sense, true to time and events and filled with names even readers only casually conversant with history are likely to recognize...Resistance Women has been described as one of the 'Best ... Read more »
RW: Kirkus
“From the end days of the Weimar Republic through the rise of Hitler and the atrocities of World War II, four women boldly defy the Nazis, risking their own lives and those of their loved ones. Chiaverini’s latest historical novel masterfully reimagines the real lives of Mildred Fish Harnack, Greta ... Read more »