A review by storybookbelle82
What the Night Sings by Vesper Stamper

5.0

This book was a surprise for me. I read a lot of Holocaust novels but have never read one that took place AFTER the Jews were liberated from the Nazis. Every book I have read literally ends when they open the gates and the British soldiers come in to save them. Stamper's novel depicts a very different "ending" than I have pictured thus far, describing life in the camp with the British as they heal and try to figure out where to go next in the world, how to continue their lives. The novel shows a long road of healing, a new sense of community and then a flight to new life. Liberation, didn't mean freedom, they were still bound to the camp as refugees. I was deeply moved by the character development, the struggles, the growth, the discovery of a new sense of self. It was a novel of coming of age IN the internment camp and picturing a life thereafter.

Brilliant.