In the book’s first chapters, her clubfoot is repaired and she finds herself mending in a hospital. Ada’s journey, we understand, will be about learning to believe.Īda’s physical and external problems will be solved rather quickly. “You can know things all you like,” Ada says in the very beginning of the book, “but that doesn’t mean you believe them.” This is the book’s anchor. In some ways, the structure of “The War I Finally Won” could not be simpler. Leaving us to wonder: Now what? Now comes Ada’s aftermath, as she struggles not to let her trauma define her life. They will have watched her journey out of that dark place, into one of relative safety. Readers of Kimberly Brubaker Bradley’s last novel, “The War That Saved My Life,” will already be familiar with the terrible particulars of Ada Smith’s childhood: her abusive mother, her captivity in a single shabby room in London during World War II, her painful clubfoot and its associated shame. THE WAR I FINALLY WON By Kimberly Brubaker Bradley 385 pp.
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