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. 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. SEE ALSO: Cheeky bookseller proves that Trump's own words are the best way to sell the book about him 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. 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. Monica Hesse's books are like time machines - vehicles that help us explore our past.
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