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Violence
Some
WWII occupation violence; deaths and loss depicted in the historical timeline
Language
Barely any
Clean literary prose throughout
Sexual Content
Barely any
Adult romantic relationships in the historical timeline; restrained
Substance Use
Barely any
None
Emotional Intensity
A lot
The weight of a secret kept for eighty years and what its telling costs the people who hold it
What this book is about
Alice's grandmother, in the final stages of Alzheimer's, says a name—Tomasz—that Alice has never heard before, and gives her a dying wish: go to Poland and find out what happened. Kelly Rimmer's dual-timeline novel alternates between Alice's present-day search and her grandmother's WWII experience in German-occupied Poland.
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