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BOOK REVIEW: Sophie's Heart
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by: Noelle Peterson Dancing Word Reviewer
Title: Sophie’s Heart Author: Lori Wick Publisher: Harvest House ISBN: 0-7369-0328-3 Genre: Inspirational/Cross-Cultural /Romance
Sophie Velikonja, a multi-lingual Czechoslovakian, translates for the Check government. She and her grandmother have entered their names into the drawing for a visa to the United States. Luckily, her name is drawn, but not her grandma’s, Kasmira Kopecky, who must stay back. Sophie struggles with leaving the only family she knows. Her grand mother gives her blessing. She travels into another world and must make many adjustments.
Sophie gets a job as a bus girl in Chicago, where everyone thinks because she can’t speak perfect English, she is stupid and they treat her as scum. Here she meets a couple, Janet & David Ring who end up finding her a job as a house manager in nearby Middleton, Wisconsin with the wife’s widowed brother, Alec Riley, and his three kids, Rita, Craig & Tory.
Alec’s world was turned upside down when his wife, Vanessa, died in a car crash a year earlier. The kids had learned how to take care of the house and chores, but their father had buried himself in his work.
Sophie’s arrival was a blessing as they were all allowed to take their roles back. Sophie kept the house in order, helped with homework, kept the children on track. All is good until grandma comes to visit. Vanessa’s mom sees Sophie as a threat to Vanessa’s place in the home and sets out to get rid of her.
Sophie feels in the way and moves out of the over the garage apartment that she was given. Alec misses her more than he ever would have admitted and they work through cultural mis-nderstandings to bring healing to a hurting family.
As a missionary wife myself, it was refreshing to see Sophie deal with learning about the American culture in ways we never think of. Sophie’s Heart is full of cultural naïvetés and emotional family times. What will Sophie find in Middleton? Will she ever see her grandmother again?
Lori Wick tells this enchanting cross cultural story drawing you deeper into Sophie’s heart with each chapter. We walk along with her as she continually falls in love with America, the family and Christ more and more.
I highly recommend Sophie’s Heart as a fun look at cross cultural life and romance and a fun way to see a couple blossom, but be ready to spend time reading, as you won’t want to put this book down. You won’t be sorry. You will want to add Sophie’s Heart to your Need to Read List. $12.99. 440 pages.
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