A River Named Helen

A River Named Helen is a fictional story set in 1939 in an isolated village high in the Black Mountains of Germany. The story chronicles the adventures, emotional tragedies, despair, and overwhelming theme of hope and family values. This is not a war story but a story of war’s tragedies and its effects on one and a village. The entire village is forced to flee for freedom in America while crossing Europe as an extended family. The story has in-depth narratives of the villagers’ individual emotional plight and several substories, intricately enhancing the main theme of hope and family values while fleeing from the Nazis.