An Enemy Like Me<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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<\/a><\/p>\nTeri M. Brown<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
<\/a><\/p>\nBest Historical Fiction 2023<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
Teri M. Brown\u2019s new novel, \u201cAn Enemy Like Me,\u201d depicts a German-American family facing discrimination, torn loyalties, and separation during World War II.<\/i><\/p>\n
CALABASH, NC, UNITED STATES, March 21, 2024 \/EINPresswire.com<\/a>\/ — Love of country, love of family, and torn loyalties bring one German-American family into conflict with their neighbors and ultimately themselves in Teri M. Brown\u2019s new novel \u201cAn Enemy Like Me\u201d (ISBN: 9781639885459, Atmosphere Press 2023).<\/p>\n Teri M. Brown\u2019s new novel \u201cAn Enemy Like Me,\u201d has won the Tyler R. Tichelaar Award for Best Historical Fiction in this year\u2019s Reader Views Literary Awards. Set just prior to and during World War II, it tells the story of the German-American Miller (once Mueller) family and the decision Jacob Miller must make to serve his country in a war against his fatherland. Alternating chapters provide us with Jacob, his wife Bonnie, and four-year-old son William\u2019s perspectives on World War II and how they all cope with Jacob being separated from his family and with the PTSD he experiences upon his return.<\/p>\n The novel\u2019s outlying parameters tell the story of Jacob\u2019s parents as immigrants to the United States from Germany and Jacob\u2019s son and grandchildren living well into the twenty-first century. The novel embodies how one person\u2019s decision\u2014whether to come to the United States, to fight in a war, or to understand and forgive someone\u2014can have far-reaching effects that may both bless and hinder future generations. Emotions are nestled amid the story\u2019s generational layers, making readers ponder what it means to be an American and what it means to be a family.<\/p>\n Tyler R. Tichelaar, winner of the 2009 Reader Views Best Historical Fiction Award for his novel \u201cNarrow Lives\u201d and the award sponsor since 2010, says of \u201cAn Enemy Like Me,\u201d \u201cTeri M. Brown has created a completely engaging novel. I read it in two days, not wanting to put it down, and became totally enmeshed in the characters and their situations. I especially felt for Jacob Miller having to decide between his family and his country and then being faced with fighting against his German cousins. The emotional conflicts the characters feel make them come to life, and I felt new appreciation for those who fought to keep the world free during World War II.\u201d<\/p>\n Reader Views reviews more than 2,000 books per year by self-published and small press authors. Its Annual Literary Awards recognize the very best of these up-and-coming authors. \u201cAn Enemy Like Me\u201d joins a series of previous historical fiction winners on such diverse topics as eighteenth-century pirates, opera composers, the Civil War, the Vietnam War, the founding of Louisiana, and witchcraft in Puritan New England.<\/p>\n Readers are singing the praises of \u201cAn Enemy Like Me.\u201d Leigh Kimberly Zoby of Reader Views states, \u201cIf there was ever a book that made me want to hug and then thank a soldier it was this one.\u201d K. C. Flinn of Readers\u2019 Favorite calls the novel \u201can emotive ride filled with pain, suffering, conflict, loyalty, and love across distance and always, right at its core, the faintest flicker of continuing hope.\u201d And Dorothy Schwab at The Grateful Reader praises it as \u201cA heart gripping account of the unthinkable choices men and women face when deciding to serve in the military to defend their country.\u201d Such well-deserved praise reflects why the novel is winning readers\u2019 hearts everywhere.<\/p>\n About the Author<\/p>\n Born in Athens, Greece as an Air Force brat, Teri M. Brown came into this world with an imagination full of stories to tell. She now calls the North Carolina coast home, and the peaceful nature of the sea has been a great source of inspiration for her creativity. Teri is a wife, mother, grandmother, and author who loves word games, reading, bumming on the beach, taking photos, singing in the shower, hunting for bargains, ballroom dancing, playing bridge, and mentoring others. She is also the author of Sunflowers Beneath the Snow and Daughters of Green Mountain Gap.<\/p>\n \u201cAn Enemy Like Me\u201d (ISBN: 9781639885459, Atmosphere Press, 2023) can be purchased through local and online bookstores. For more information, visit www.TeriMBrown.com<\/a>. Publicity contact: www.ReaderViews.com<\/a>. Review copies available upon request. Teri M. Brown \n
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