{"product_id":"9781945975202","title":"Following Shadows: Book One of the Finding Home Series","description":"For sixty years after World War II, death has haunted the entire Vanderveer family.\u003cp\u003eDeath lives within the soul of Jakob Vanderveer, who vowed to be a silent keeper of secrets. He believed this would be a loving way to keep his family safe. Yet, the shadow of Jakob's missing four years, his adolescent survival of the horrors of \u003ci\u003eJappen kampen\u003c\/i\u003e (Japanese concentration camps) hit his family with a terrible cost.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThen one day Jakob calls his now adult daughter, Luce Vanderveer Lewis. Her scientist-brother, Alby, has been hiding his ongoing drug addiction and has overdosed...again. With the openness of her father's phone call, old yearnings pull at Luce...to learn about her father's three and a half missing years in Japanese Concentration Camps.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs the family gathers with Alby's doctor, Jakob is coaxed to reveal the past. Since Alby's recent near death, he can no longer profess that secret-keeping created a healthy family. First Jakob speaks in his usual generalizations regarding the horrors of war and too many deaths. Slowly he touches on the day the Japanese declared all boys fourteen and younger were \"men.\" That day started the events that eventually left Jakob all alone among thousands of men.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith the telling of his story, a seemingly cast-iron wall begins to crack. Jakob's real life account of what is behind his anxious and controlling ways leaves Luce shaken by greater understanding, love, and a new awareness of her own struggles-growing up across three continents.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNeither Luce nor her parents can ever return to their first homes or their lost childhoods. Yet, \u003ci\u003eFollowing Shadows\u003c\/i\u003e, takes the reader on a journey of healing in which the Vanderveers discover that the past, rather than destroying, pulls everyone to the light of home.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Living Parables of Central Florida, Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47044428267760,"sku":"9781945975202","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781945975202_p0.jpg?v=1763798324","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781945975202","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}