Book recs about WWII/postwar women????

[aliall]

I would like to read some historical fiction or memoirs about women who were raising families during WWII and living with Victory Gardens and rations and all that, as well as the post war times and adjusting to new mass marketing/ consumeristic ways of life.

Does anyone have any suggestions. I love to read time period fiction and realize that this is a large gap that I don't know much about.

Thanks
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[Thalia the Muse]

Marge Piercy has an excellent one, about a diverse cross-section of women during WWII -- Gone to Soldiers.

[Katie Bugs Mama]

Originally Posted by Thalia the Muse

Marge Piercy has an excellent one, about a diverse cross-section of women during WWII -- Gone to Soldiers.

That's what I was going to recommend, too.

[katybear mama]

Here are a couple that I read:

Dream When You're Feeling Blue

Let Me Go (from the point of view of the daughter of a Nazi mother)

[aliall]

Thanks I will add all of those to my to read pile

[lorijds]

Originally Posted by Thalia the Muse

Marge Piercy has an excellent one, about a diverse cross-section of women during WWII -- Gone to Soldiers.

I third it. That's one of my favorite books of all time.

[zinemama]

A really good kids' book (10 and up, maybe?) that I loved and still have is Hut School and the War-time, Home-front Heroes. It's got your victory gardens, your family life, your kinfolk going off to war, your rationing.