![]() ![]() ![]() More open and spontaneous, Millie’s attractiveness to people, especially to boys and then men, is a constant threat and humiliation to Ruth. Ruth’s controlling nature, an echo of their mother’s, leaves Millie feeling demeaned and marginalized. They seem to have been the victims of unrealistic expectations and misguided parenting. ![]() The Brooklyn-born Kaplans, first Ruth and, later, Millie (the younger by three years), relocate to Springfield, Massachusetts, to rebuild their lives after shaky, if conventional, beginnings. These are women who had factory jobs or positions, clerical and otherwise, that supported the manufacture of weapons. to enter WWII and during the war years that followed. The other is the wider sisterhood of women who toiled in preparing the U.S. The more obvious is the horribly strained relationship between two sisters, Ruth and Millie Kaplan. The title of Lynda Cohen Loigman’s new novel, The Wartime Sisters, has two dimensions. ![]()
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