Book: What I Would Tell You
Author: Liz Tolsma
Genre: Christian Fiction / Romance / Historical Fiction
Release date: January 1, 2023
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Sephardic Jew Mathilda Nissim watches in horror as the Germans invade her beloved city of Salonika, Greece. What angers her most is the lack of resistance her people put up to their captors. In secret and at great risk to her life, she continues to publish her newspaper, calling her people to action. She doesn’t trust God to help them. When she and her husband find out they are expecting a child, Mathilda may have to resort to desperate measures to ensure her daughter’s survival.
Three generations later, college student Riley Payson and her cousin take a popular DNA test only to discover they don’t share any common ancestors. In fact, the test shows Riley is a Sephardic Jew from Greece. This revelation shakes Riley’s tenuous faith and sends her on a journey to discover what happened to her great-grandmother and how all this relates to her faith and her life today.
Book Excerpt #4
“The Germans will see it as such. They will only allow their own propaganda to be printed. Especially nothing Jewish. Jews in other countries have lost their businesses, their homes, their very lives.”
“Now you understand why I have to keep writing and publishing. So that we don’t lose our voices. There is so much I have to tell.”
“At what cost?” Asher stared at her, his eyes dark and stormy.
“At whatever cost it might be.” Too many Jews had already died. If she could prevent one more death or ten or a hundred, it would be worth whatever Dio demanded of her.
He shook his head. “No. Mi corasón, I couldn’t stand to lose you. I can’t allow you to put yourself in so much danger.”
“No matter whether I stop writing or not, I fear we are all in danger. You have heard the stories from Germany and Poland and the other occupied countries. No Jew is safe in a Nazi-controlled land. Any moment, any one of us could be taken—”
With a touch to her lips, he shushed her. “Put those thoughts out of your mind.”
She kept her words soft, almost whispering in his ear. “We have to think about such things.”
He hugged her hard, trembling from head to toe.
“I’m scared too. So afraid. What will become of us? But the entirety of Europe’s Jews may well be wiped out if we stand aside and remain spectators to own destruction. I am more afraid of what will happen if we do nothing than of what will happen if we do something.”
“At whatever cost it might be.” Too many Jews had already died. If she could prevent one more death or ten or a hundred, it would be worth whatever Dio demanded of her.
He shook his head. “No. Mi corasón, I couldn’t stand to lose you. I can’t allow you to put yourself in so much danger.”
“No matter whether I stop writing or not, I fear we are all in danger. You have heard the stories from Germany and Poland and the other occupied countries. No Jew is safe in a Nazi-controlled land. Any moment, any one of us could be taken—”
With a touch to her lips, he shushed her. “Put those thoughts out of your mind.”
She kept her words soft, almost whispering in his ear. “We have to think about such things.”
He hugged her hard, trembling from head to toe.
“I’m scared too. So afraid. What will become of us? But the entirety of Europe’s Jews may well be wiped out if we stand aside and remain spectators to own destruction. I am more afraid of what will happen if we do nothing than of what will happen if we do something.”
Links to All Excerpts
Excerpt One: https://travelerswife4life.com/book-spotlight-what-i-would-tell-you-by-liz-tolsma/
Excerpt Two: https://janemouttet.wordpress.com/2022/12/13/what-i-would-tell-you-epic-book-launch-excerpt/
Excerpt Three: https://blossomsandblessings.blogspot.com/2022/11/what-i-would-tell-you-by-liz-tolsma.html
Excerpt Four: https://moments-of-beauty.blogspot.com/2022/12/what-i-would-tell-you-epic-book-launch.html
Excerpt Five: https://carolkeen.blogspot.com/2022/12/what-i-would-tell-you-epic-book-launch.html
Excerpt Six: https://www.amoderndayfairytale.net/2022/12/what-i-would-tell-you-epic-book-launch.html
Excerpt Seven: https://storiesbygina.wordpress.com/2022/12/13/what-i-would-tell-you-epic-book-launch-with-celebrate-lit/
About the Author
Liz Tolsma is the author of several WWII novels, romantic suspense novels, prairie romance novellas, and an Amish romance. She is a popular speaker and an editor and resides next to a Wisconsin farm field with her husband and their youngest daughter. Her son is a US Marine, and her oldest daughter is a college student. Liz enjoys reading, walking, working in her large perennial garden, kayaking, and camping.
Please visit her website at www.liztolsma.com and follow her on Facebook, Twitter (@LizTolsma), Instagram, YouTube, and Pinterest. She is also the host of the Christian Historical Fiction Talk podcast.
That cover is so pretty and mysterious
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