ALL WE HAVE TO BELIEVE IN
A Novel by Jeffrey J. Lousteau
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Beautifully drawn characters take us back in time to the “Great War,” the 1918-1919 influenza pandemic…
ALL WE HAVE TO BELIEVE IN is a story of a disillusioned veteran of the Great War who returns home to San Francisco and tries to fit back into a fast-changing society. Renouncing the trappings of success that await him, he befriends a gravely wounded war veteran and, in the process, falls in love with an army nurse, the headstrong daughter of Italian immigrants.
Edward and Angela's story unfolds across a dazzling decade where beneath all the glamour xenophobia takes hold, prosperity is undone by greed, and Prohibition proves morally bankrupt. This is a story of love and loss, of personal betrayals and redemption, of America's struggle to define herself in the world that continues to resonate today...
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This novel brings you deeply into the lives of its characters. Edward and Angela's love story is beautifully delineated, and the background history is fascinating in its detail.
The novel deals expertly with themes of racism, xenophobia, greed, love, and redemption, the depiction of these themes are nuanced and some are as heartbreaking as they are heartwarming.
A page-turner of historical fiction. The characters are nuanced but accessible, the story line intertwines optimism and melancholy and tragedy in the same ways that life inevitably does.
For anyone interested in comparing our current times with the past and learning lessons from its history, "All We Have to Believe In" is the book to read.
first published in the UK in 2020
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The winds out of the west land blow,
My friends have breathed them there;
Warm with the blood of lads I know
Comes east the sighing air.
A.E. Housman from A Shropshire Lad
A.E. Housman
from A Shropshire Lad