The Longest Ride by Nicholas Sparks

The Longest Ride is set in the present day when a man, too old to be driving, runs off the road in a bad snow storm and is having flash backs of when he first meet his wife.  In Ira's flash backs they are set in February of 1939. The day he first saw his wife.  Ruth and her family had immigrated to North Carolina from Vienna, where they fled from Hitler.  Her family had came into Ira's parents store seeking help from his mother. Ira's mom spoke German and Ruth and her family were terribly homesick and needed someone to talk to. "we were so homesick, so hungry to meet someone from home." (pg. 11)  Ruth probably felt very out of place.  Coming to a new country fleeing from someone who wanted to hurt her and her family, knowing very little of that language and starting a whole new life, must have been very hard considering she was sixteen years old.  I predict that eventually someone will find Ira's car and take him to the hospital hopefully in time.