Dear Miss Kopp

 Amy Stewart has taken on a difficult challenge and pulled it off with aplomb.  Writing a novel all in letters seems like a complicated way to write a plot.  In this novel the correspondence is mainly between the three Kopp sisters as each of them go off in different directions during World War One.  

This is the first time each of the three sisters are living apart and have all left their family farmhouse.   Constance is following true to form and has found work as a corrections officer for army.  She is sent on assignments mainly to route out Germans here in NJ and NY who may be working for Germany and against the United States.  Of course she does find trouble and her letters are between her and her superior officer explaining the case she is working on.  They are detailed letters that set out all the details of the exploits she encounters as she brings and an end corruption and justice prevails.

Constance also writes to Norma and Fleurette sharing information about her life and the life of their brother and his family.  Norma is off in France and trying to make her carrier pigeon program work for the War effort.  She writes short letters home, but her roommate is there to elaborate about the exciting innovations and award winning successes that Norma is having.  Between Norma and her roommate, Anna they also send letters telling of an encounter with a German spy who has been stealing medicine for the local field hospital to send to German soldiers in another area.  

Of course Fleurette is traveling around the United States, performing with a troupe of dancing girls to entertain the troops before they go off to battle in Europe.  She is using her talents to help the war effort.  She gets into some minor scrapes along the way.  She writes home with news, but the important information she has to share she does with her friend Helen.  Those letters detail the daily life of girls who really traveled around the country entertaining the troops.

Each of the Kopp sisters, though sharing letters that seem to be made up of their daily exploits are really also historic recounting of the life women were really living during the war.  They may not be exact details of the what the Kopp sisters were doing but they are actually what was happening to women during this time period.  So that adds to the interesting aspects of this novel. Again you are learning as you are reading and enjoying this complicated writing style of reading a novel written completely as letters.