This book is my new favorite. Okay, so I am a bit of a WW2 buff. I read books about it often, whether it be historical fiction or nonfiction. But this book hit me, it was an emotional roller coaster. I want to talk about it, explain EVERY detail but I need people to read this book so I can talk to them and I can't spoil it. But the use of language in it and the German sprinkled in (Which I'd like to say is grammatically correct and everything) adds to the experience of reading it. I got it for five dollars at the good old Barnes and Noble for super cheap and I've read it like six times.
For a quick overview of it:
We have two main characters in the book and the perspective switches from one to the other. Inge is a young German girl living with a Nazi father who strongly supports "the führer" and is not the perfect Deutsch girl. Her hair and eyes are dark and she is short. Her friend, Annemarie, is the opposite. Tall with blonde hair and blue eyes Inge's mom envies that and therefore shuns Annemarie and doesn't let Inge see her.
The second perspective is of a girl named Eva, who is going to America right after World War Two with Bridget her friend. But she has a vendetta and a goal which she sets off to as soon as she enters the sort of group home she is placed in for refuge.
The two perspectives meet in the middle and will leave you STUNNED, to say the least. Man, I cried reading this book because it brings the war to a reality. Goodness, it's amazing. I re-read it again today, yes in one day. Granted I skipped through the book to get to the chapters I love.
Sorry for the word wall but I NEED to find others who have read this book and adored it as much as I do, and if you don't like it give me your insight. Id like to see other viewpoints on this book!
(P.S. I'm marking for spoiler because I say more than the book back. Not sure If I spoiled anything)