It all starts with a ham radio that Alice, Lawrence, and Artie fool around with in 1944 and Henry, Frances, and Lukas find in 2023. It\u2019s late April, and the 1944 kids worry about loved ones in combat, while the 2023 kids study the war in school. When, impossibly, the radio allows the kids to communicate across time, it doesn\u2019t take long before they share information that changes history. Can the two sets of kids work across a 79-year divide to prevent the U.S.A. from becoming the Nazi-controlled dystopia of Westfallen? This propulsive thriller includes well-paced cuts between times that keep the pages turning. Like most people in their small New Jersey town, Alice, Artie, and Frances are white. In 1944, Lawrence, who\u2019s Black, endures bigotry; in the U.S.A. of 2023, Henry\u2019s biracial (white and Black) identity and Lukas\u2019 Jewish one are unremarkable, but in Westfallen, Henry\u2019s a \u201cmischling\u201d doing \u201cwork-learning,\u201d and Lukas is a menial laborer. Alice\u2019s and Henry\u2019s dual first-person narration zooms in on the adventure, but readers who pull back may find themselves deeply uneasy with the summary consideration paid to the real-life fates of European Jews and disabled people. The cliffhanger ending will have them hoping for more thoughtful treatment in sequels to come.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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