"The past is nothing you can make friends or enemies of. It just is what it is. Or was. It is this day you are living right now, this very day, that is yours to make of it what you will. So make it beautiful, if you can."

The Last Year of the War was one of my most anticipated books for this spring and it did not disappoint. What I loved the most about it was that I didn't know much about the internment camps for German and Japanese immigrants during WWII here in America. How our distrust for these immigrants that could 'possibly' have a connection to our enemies at war even though they had been living in America for years just slayed me. These poor families had to leave everything they had worked so hard for, the majority of their belongings, their homes, jobs, all gone. Susan Meissner did a fantastic job weaving a whole story from beginning to the very end of our character's lives and bringing to light a topic of our history that not many know about. A solid historical fiction book and one I highly recommend for any historical fiction fans. 4/5🌟