I Wish This War Were Over

About the Book

I Wish This War Were Over, runner-up for the Pulitzer Prize, is a coming-of-age story of love and pain set against the tumultuous background of World War II... “something rare and precious: a novel of genuine distinction...”
Jonathan Yardley, The Washington Post

About the Author

Diana O’Hehir is the author of four books of poetry and two novels, of which I Wish This War Were Over is the first. she has received a number of awards, including a Guggenheim Fiction Award and a National Foundation of the Arts Fiction Award. I Wish This War Were Over was runner-up for the Pulitzer Prize.