Which Way Now?
Christine Oswald Rahn spent her youth in small towns and farms near the rivers and valleys of southern Minnesota. She received a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Minnesota and a Bachelor of Arts and a Masters degree from the University of Washington. Her short stories have been published in two anthologies. As a young girl she attended a Girl Scout camp on the Cottonwood River and became intrigued by the WWII POW graffiti carved into the woodwork of the cabins. In 2002 she attended a Traces conference in Iowa where she met German prisoners who had returned for a tour of their old camps, which led to the idea for this novel. She lives in Olympia, Washington, and enjoys the company of her husband, two daughters, five grandchildren and a varying number of dogs.