'The War Outside': An exclusive peek at Monica Hesse's heartbreaking new novel

Monica Hesse's books are like time machines — vehicles that help us explore our past.

In her first book, Girl In The Blue Coat, Hesse delivered a nail-biting deep dive into World War II, following a black marketeer in Nazi-occupied Amsterdam who is suddenly tasked with finding a missing Jewish teenager.

Now Hesse is back, and she's revisiting an aspect of WWII that's not frequently discussed: the interment of Japanese Americans and German Americans.

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In her upcoming second novel, titled The War Outside, Hesse traces the lives of two teens — Haruko and Margot — who are uprooted from their lives and placed in Crystal City, a family internment camp in west Texas, because they're parents are German and Japanese. When they meet at the camp's school, Haruko and Margot believe that they'll only know each other, and only stay in Crystal City, for a short amount of time. However, as time stretches on, and the dynamic of camp changes, the two begin to rely on each other as everything they know starts to fall apart. Read more...

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