Hide one child in your coat,
and you save yourself.
Hide two, and you alter the universe.
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About The Crush of Wine and War
The Crush of Wine and War is a WWII story told from a unique perspective and deals with events and emotions largely unexplored, set against the myth of Austria’s victimization by Hitler and the reality of its complicity with the Third Reich, and the complicity of the Catholic Church.
About Molly
Molly Fumia attended Santa Clara University and The Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley. She is a seventh generation native Californian. She married into an Italian family of fruit farmers and has six children. The Crush of Wine and War is her first Historical Fiction novel.
Praise for Molly's Books
Here is a book of exquisite honesty and profound depth... Along the way grief becomes a dance in the dark and suffering turns to love.
—Sue Monk Kidd on Safe Passage
Is there a remedy to grief? Molly Fumia's moving words... are both inspired and inspiring.
—Elie Wiesel on Safe Passage
This is a story that will break your heart and make it whole again. It will bring you into realms of humanness and compassion you didn't know you had. It might even set you free to love in ways you've never loved before.
—Helen Prejean, Dead Man Walking, on
Honor Thy Children
...Author Molly Fumia exceptionally writes of a fragile time when friendships were severed by differing allegiances and families were ravaged by the cataclysmic hand of fate during war. Fumia’s novel is compelling reading on all counts.
—San Francisco Book Review on
The Crush of Wine and War
A rich, personal testimony to the fact that death cannot negate the ultimacy of love..., sensitively acquainting us with the unbelievable magnitude of a single death, yet also extracting from it an infinite blessing.
—Robert McAfee Brown on
A PIece of My Heart
The Crush of Wine and War is the extraordinary story of two families taking on the Nazi Empire... I found it a beautifully written and irresistible read.
—Bishop Thomas Gumbleton, Archdiocese of Detroit
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Molly’s Research Photos from The Crush of Wine and War
Molly's Behind the Scenes Essay
The Crush of Wine and War began with my unexpected, often humbling, and deeply appreciated relationship with Elie Wiesel, perhaps the most celebrated Holocaust author of all time and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize. Our friendship sent me careening into years of holocaust study.
