jsec4 's review for:

Cilka's Journey by Heather Morris
5.0

This story follows one of the side characters in the famous Tattooist of Auschwitz by the same author. It shines the light on a far less studied and discussed topic of the reality of life for those rescued from the Nazis but subjected to soviet rule. It is an important work giving a partially fictional illustration of the horrors faced by some in the soviet gulags that were arguably as bad as those Hitler's Nazi party created but without the final solution.

Heather Morris writes beautifully and does not stray away from the uncomfortable aspects of her stories. She does not show her protagonists as perfect which I feel is an authentic and necessary thing for works covering this topic.

I look forward to her other works