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In post-war New Mexico, an eleven-year-old girl is caught between the losses of the First World War and bittersweet victories of the Second World War, struggling to make sense of it all. And how can she ever please her high-strung mother, who is forever comparing her to the sweet and kind older sister who died of pneumonia as a toddler?She knew her uncle Willie was some kind of hero in World War I, but not until she found a packet of hidden letters did she understand the scope of his heroism.