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Sarah's Key by Tatiana de Rosnay
4.0

This book follows the story of Sarah, a young girl growing up in Nazi occupied France.
When the Nazis come and arrest her and her parents, Sarah locks her little brother in a cupboard.
In Auschwitz, Sarah struggles with the guilt of leaving her brother behind.

The story jumps to a present day journalist, Julia who is commissioned to write a piece on the round-up that had Sarah and her family arrested. Julia learns the story of Sarah and her family and needs to know how her story ended.

Alternating between present day and 1942 we see these two lives, intertwining in a beautifully written story.