Many thanks to NetGalley, Atria Books, and Armando Lucas Correa. I loved The German Girl and this book also takes place during the atrocities of World War II.
Amanda and her husband, Julian, are raising their small daughters in Berlin, where Julian is a cardiologist and Amanda owns a bookstore. Then the Nazis came, burned down the bookstore, and took Julian to a concentration camp. Amanda is lucky to be able to flee to a family friend in France, who agrees to take in her and the two girls. Beforehand, she receives a letter from her husband with instructions on how to save the girls - by putting them on a ship to Cuba where her brother lives. At the dock, she makes a decision she will carry with her forever. In France, she is once again confronted by the Nazis and she is taken to a camp with her daughter, where she will once again have to make a decision about her children.
This book is sad but it shows the strength that people had to resist evil, to try and maintain their families, and how they put their children above all. The story is bookended by the story of an elderly woman who is presented with letters from a time she has all but forgotten.
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