The Ways We Hide by Kristina McMorris

THE WAYS WE HIDE by Kristina McMorris (Sold on a Monday) is an historical fiction novel that occurs in the first half of the twentieth century. The main character, Fenna Vos, is introduced as a talented magician who idolizes and mimics Houdini while eventually having a chance to aid British intelligence during WWII. There are multiple flashbacks to 1928 when Fenna lived with her widowed immigrant father near a copper mine on Michigan’s upper peninsula. It is a lonely life and her one true friend is a young man named Arie Jansen. Eventually, they are reunited and hints of a romance form even as they struggle with post-traumatic stress disorder and both work to help the Resistance in Europe. At almost five hundred pages, the book is long and its pace could be increased, but McMorris shares a moving and suspenseful story filled with numerous realistic details about life in the US during the Depression, London during wartime, and dangers associated with espionage efforts. THE WAYS WE HIDE, written by an award-winning author, is a LibraryReads selection for September 2022.