Loaned to me by Neighbor Megan. I won’t tire of good fiction set in World War 2 Europe. This is the story of a German woman in Berlin. Sigrid isn’t particularly political or, in the beginning, ethical in any way. She is lonely and stressed. Through a series of cascading events, she finds herself confronted with political and ethical decisions and watching her make them is thrilling. A lot of the WW2 fiction I’ve read has Very Good Guys and Very Bad Guys. This book is full of grey. It’s hard to like any of the characters for the first half of the book. They are all complicated and compromised. REAL. By the end, I felt like these were some of the most real characters I’ve met from that era. Wonderful book.
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