The Irene Schmidt Letters
When everything seems lost, she struggles to save her family in The Unbroken Thread.
In the heart of the Great Depression, Irene Schmidt is a devoted wife and mother of two in a close-knit Illinois town. But the calm routine of her life shatters when the bank run by her husband is forced to close its doors.
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Suddenly, Irene and her family are ostracized. The townspeople who were once friends and neighbors now regard her with anger and resentment. Through heartfelt letters to her close friend Ruth in Washington, D.C., Irene shares the agonizing pressure of learning to make ends meet day by day and the fear that the relentless stress will tear her marriage apart.
Ruth understands her friend’s sense of ostracization all too well, as whispers of a growing threat in her birth country of Germany begin to filter through Washington.
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Stripped of their social standing and facing economic ruin, Irene must find strength she never knew she possessed. As her world falls apart, will she be able to hold onto everything she holds most dear?
A Note to Parents
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