"In Kansas at the height of WWII, Farnsworth presents a U.S. Army Hospital where injured and ill American soldiers and German prisoners of war exhibit all the traits and complications of a complex and intimate world. Here a young interpreter begins to unravel one prisoner's secrets, which leads to a crime she must overcome in order to survive."

"An intriguing tale that moves seamlessly between the Kansas prairie and the cafés of Vienna and explores where honor ends and betrayal begins, or maybe it's the other way around. War stories are often painted in the bold colors of military and political giants and knaves, but the real history of war is wrapped around the spirits and emotions, often in conflict with each other, of people whose tales get lost in time. Thanks to Elizabeth Farnsworth for making these realities so vivid."

"With delicacy and grace, Farnsworth illuminates a moment in history all but lost to memory. The remarkable novel manages to be compelling as a war story, a love story, and even a western! What a gift it was to read."

"In the summer of 1943, a young woman is hired to interpret for German prisoners of war at a U.S. Army Hospital in Kansas. Harboring dark secrets from her childhood, Isabelle Graham will be forced into a struggle that saves her own life as well as many others in the distant, ongoing war. Farnsworth has written in Last Light a thrilling and moving account of a young woman's courage and determination in the face of seemingly insuperable odds."

"This extraordinary short novel, Last Light, follows a young woman, Isabelle Graham, from Vienna to Topeka to Nuremberg, telling a World War II story unlike any others. It is at once a coming-of-age tale, a morality tale, and a dark fairy tale inspired by the Brothers Grimm's The Juniper Tree. Compact and complex, Elizabeth Farnsworth's story evokes beautifully the innocence of a Kansas childhood, a woman's sexual and intellectual awakening, and the physical and psychic wounds of war with its inherent moral ambiguities. The central question-When is killing justified?-haunts until the end."