{"product_id":"9780998744117","title":"The Résistance Between Us: Book One: Ingrid's Wars","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe R\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003eé\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003esistance Between Us \u003c\/em\u003eis  a tough, realistic account of a conscientious life ultimately well-­‐lived. It is serious fiction, far closer to the literary vein of  Irene Nemirovsky’s \u003cem\u003eSuite Fran\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003eç\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003eaise \u003c\/em\u003ethan any of today’s World War II fiction novels—and not unlike the visual integrity of the film, \u003cem\u003eThe Saving of Private Ryan.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eHowever, \u003c\/em\u003eif you enjoyed reading \u003cem\u003eAll the Light We Cannot See \u003c\/em\u003eor Kristen Hannah's \u003cem\u003eNightingale\u003c\/em\u003e, or you value sweeping epics like \u003cem\u003eGone With the Wind, \u003c\/em\u003eyou are sure to be fascinated with this novel.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe narrator\/heroine, Ingrid de Vochard Fellner, is an alluring, wealthy widow—a philanthropist—who lives in the small, fictional town of Duchamps, along the Doubs River, at the heart of a small part of Occupied France, located somewhere near the real city of Besançon, and within sight of the Jura Mountains.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs the book opens, the Doubs River delivers two dead bodies to Ingrid’s riverbank one morning, and she discovers them, a young couple with yellow stars on their coats. An encounter there with the coordinator of the local Résistance compels her to join the group. She shields Jews and political refugees in her basement while they wait to pass to Italy and Switzerland. She entertains the enemy \u003cem\u003eupstairs \u003c\/em\u003eto guarantee the safety of her Old Testament visitors \u003cem\u003edownstairs\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"This is my time to honor unwanted guests,\" writes Ingrid, \"and pray for the day I can make them go home. Pardon my scorn, but these guests are the enemy. Not the Germans I grew up with, nor the man I married and lost. The enemy is a rigid, twisted, oddly obedient criminal lot everyone fears.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNearly as quickly as she becomes a Resistante, she wants to leave the Underground. Dieter, local leader, tells her, \"I can't burden you. It's too dangerous. Anyone who does this has to be strong and self-contained. You act from unconditional love--or anger must propel you. Either way, it's a commitment from the heart. You reap gratification in the precise manner you live the terror. You can't have one without the other. If you think twice about it, you're not cut out for it.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThen he tells her once she's in, she can't get out.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSo Ingrid hides the agony she lives with as Gestapo stop by on covert raids. Her neighbors and friends suspect she’s a collaborator because the Nazis come to visit; these neighbors and friends hate her for it, and gossip widely.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShe lives through lessons that assault her body, mind and soul. Then she does all the things she said she never, ever, would. And her home no longer yields comfort.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWe know what she’s lost in this clandestine battle; we enter her world and applaud \u003cem\u003eany \u003c\/em\u003esuccess over the monsters who stalk and abuse her. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLiberation comes at book’s end. However, Ingrid stands alone in a courtroom, head shaved, tondue and pariah—charged with Treason. Neither Resistants nor her betrayers know the truth. What transpires spirals into a wild climax. Ingrid is left poised for a rough road to forgiveness in Book Two--and a passionate atonement in Book Three.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mistral Editions","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47133677748464,"sku":"9780998744117","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780998744117_p0.jpg?v=1763959382","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780998744117","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}