No One is Here Except All of Us | 
panThe inhabitants of a tiny, isolated, Jewish village in #Romania decide to reset and pretend WWII isn‘t happening to protect themselves from the horrors. I thought this was a brilliant premise and occasionally a sentence just sparkles, but otherwise it was just not good. If not for the #ReadingEurope2020 challenge, I would have bailed.
so-soI liked it, but couldn‘t get past the idea that a whole community would engage in a mass delusion that they were the only people on earth in order to hide from the war.
Also - there were some disturbing scenarios that didn‘t have anything to do with the horrors of war. Reminded me of The Wasp Factory in those parts 😬
Found this beauty at the library book sale! Ausubel is one of my favorite authors and I‘ve read everything but her first novel! So excited to own and read this book 📖🤓
Curling up with this one after a long day😌💕#booksteaandblankets
pickHolocaust fiction that worked for me. The magical realism leant itself to the tragedy and absurdity of genocide and persecution. In the early 1940s, a Jewish Romanian village hears it's first war planes, a survivor (the stranger) washes upon their shores, and they decide to start time over again. Some of their new society mirrors what happens when reality ultimately catches up, and the narrator/storyteller becomes the stranger. #JewLit
#PhotoADayNov16 Day 16 - Child Protagonist
NO ONE features a child who helps make a new society for her fellow Jewish, Romanian villagers during WW2. ELEGANCE alternates between the child Paloma's diary entries and other reflections, and the narration of her apartment building's concierge Renée. HOUSEKEEPING focuses on two sisters, Ruthie and Lucille, and their growth from children to young adults in Fingerbone, Idaho.
#childprotagonist
