My throat was in a knot for a large part of the book. The viewpoint of Frances/Ziska gradually becomes more mature and forlorn as the events of WW2 unfold. Her family's actions do seem kind of harsh at first, but it doesn't later on. Personal survival was shown a lot, and how even when families w...
Evchen screeched, and swept past me and out of the room like a fat, triumphant dwarf. “Ziska’s being mean to me again!” I rolled my eyes. When the voices in the living room grew louder, I could parrot their words, I had heard this routine so often in the past few weeks. “Margot, if you can’t make...