notinjersey 's review for:

The Circus Train by Amita Parikh

4.0

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The Circus Train takes place before, during, and after World War II and features a group of performers from a circus train. The main character, Lena, had Polio as a baby and uses a wheelchair. Her father, Theo raises her and a boy they find on the train, Alexandre. Part of the story takes place at Theresienstadt, which was not a place I knew much about previously. I found the story somewhat long and thought it dragged towards the end. One thing that I wondered was why the Nazis didn’t want to capture Lena as well, as she had a disability. That question was not answered for me. All in all, it was somewhat interesting and a unique choice of a setting for a book to take place.