Becoming Mrs. Smith

Not all of war's destruction takes place on the battlefield.Becoming Mrs. Smith is a novella told in scenes, not chapters — over fourteen years, the way memory holds onto a life: vivid in places, quiet in between. It carries you back to pre-war, small-town America, where a young couple's love story begins to unfold.Violet's heart flutters from the scarlet fever she survived as a child, and it beat...