Chambers, A. (2004). Postcards from
no man's land. NY, NY: Speak, Imprint of Penguin Group, (USA)
Inc.
These are two stories that roll into one. The first one took place fifty years ago with a torrid affair between a woman and the wounded soldier she was nursing back to care. The second one is now, when seventeen year old Jacob learns the truth about his family's secret. Finding out this truth about his past is not easy on Jacob, especially learning about a "grandma" who is about to die. Well, I guess stepgrandma? For Jacob, this visit to Armsterdam was supposed to be a simple visit to his granfather's grave. Finding out that his grandfather had an affair with Daan's grandma, Geertrui while he was a convalescent wounded soldier who left her pregnant before he died was probably something that Sarah, Jacob's grandma, would not take too good either so he debates telling her the truth. While there, his attitude about Armsterdam changes because after all, it isn't as boring as people made it out to be. While there, he finds a girl that he likes, and well a boy, too, it gets a bit complicated. He sets off on a trip to Armsterdam because his sick grandma can't make it and definitely finds out more about his past than he bargained for but something that in a strange way makes him happy because he meets a cousin he didn't know he had and learns about the remarkable love a woman had for his grandfather.
These are two stories that roll into one. The first one took place fifty years ago with a torrid affair between a woman and the wounded soldier she was nursing back to care. The second one is now, when seventeen year old Jacob learns the truth about his family's secret. Finding out this truth about his past is not easy on Jacob, especially learning about a "grandma" who is about to die. Well, I guess stepgrandma? For Jacob, this visit to Armsterdam was supposed to be a simple visit to his granfather's grave. Finding out that his grandfather had an affair with Daan's grandma, Geertrui while he was a convalescent wounded soldier who left her pregnant before he died was probably something that Sarah, Jacob's grandma, would not take too good either so he debates telling her the truth. While there, his attitude about Armsterdam changes because after all, it isn't as boring as people made it out to be. While there, he finds a girl that he likes, and well a boy, too, it gets a bit complicated. He sets off on a trip to Armsterdam because his sick grandma can't make it and definitely finds out more about his past than he bargained for but something that in a strange way makes him happy because he meets a cousin he didn't know he had and learns about the remarkable love a woman had for his grandfather.
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