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smclawler 's review for:
Cilka's Journey
by Heather Morris
The will to survive at all costs, compounded by the a hint of PTSD for many of the characters, is how I read this, and it has resulted in my overdue comments. Cilka has survived the brutality of Auschwitz, but with the end of WWII, the Soviets decide she collaborated with the Nazis, and she is packed onto a train, another train, and sent to a gulag near the Arctic Circle. She is once again in survival mode, surrounded by people who want to use her, hate her, or could care less about her. Although the characters go about their reality on autopilot, even acts of kindness are subdued, this is basically nonfiction. The author has succeeded in intersecting traumatized characters with this emotionally drained reader.