A review by mrs_a_is_a_book_nerd
They Went Left by Monica Hesse

4.0

I've read many Holocaust-era novels, but none from the post-liberation perspective. This one is a well-written tale woven into one from a collection of research of many stories. I highly recommend this novel as a reminder that the atrocities of the Holocaust did not end at liberation, and that survivors who made lives for themselves that even approached "normal" did so by sheer will and resolve; "resilience" does not begin to describe what they needed to summon to go on.