The Things We Cannot Say not only tells the story of Alina’s experiences during WW2, but also addresses the messiness of some current-day families.
historical fiction
tied together with one family. The author did base the book on actual people, but elaborated on their stories.
Lilac Girls Series by Martha Hall Kelly
Three Sisters is based on the story of three real sisters who did survive the Holocaust. There are interviews with them or their children at the end of the book. I was left again in awe of what people can survive. Evil must always be stopped to prevent anything like this from ever happening again!
Three Sisters by Heather Morris
A Piece of the World is a wonderful historical fiction book based on the real life of Christina Olson. The farm never had electricity, so there are many survival lessons thrown in for living without power, too. Overall, the books shows the importance of loving those who are in our lives and reaching out to them, even when they push us away.
A Piece of the World by Christina Baker Kline
Books set during World War II tend to stick with me and this one will. Paris was a city under German control, but Parisians had certain freedoms as long as they didn’t sympathize with the Resistance or hide Jews. Lucien was more than happy to follow these rules until he got an offer he couldn’t refuse.
The Paris Architect by Charles Belfoure
In The Last Telegram, a family silk mill near London stays in business during World War II by managing to get a contract to make parachute silk. It’s business to the family, but to the soldiers using the parachutes, the quality of the silk is life and death.
The Last Telegram by Liz Trenow
The Wright Sister picks up when Katharine marries at 52 to a widowed family friend and Orville no longer speaks with her. The book is fiction other than that, but I feel like I got a glimpse into Katharine’s personality.
The Wright Sister by Patty Dann
The Kinship Series by Jess Montgomery has three books. I read the first book, The Widows, in 2019. Montgomery is an Ohio author and the books are set in Ohio. I live in Ohio, too, so the series appealed to me.
The Hollows and The Stills by Jess Montgomery
The Four Winds tells so much about life in America in the 1930s without sounding like a history book.
The Four Winds by Kristin Hannah
In The Book of Lost Names, warned by a family friend that the Nazis are coming to round up 20,000 French Jews, Eva wakes in fear when there is a knock on her parents’ door. They didn’t want to leave. It turns out to be a neighbor who needs help watching her children. Eva and her mother go stay but while they are sleeping, Eva’s father is taken by the French police.