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Sarah's Key by Tatiana de Rosnay
4.0

This book proves to those people who refuse to read fiction because "it doesn't teach you anything" that they are mistaken. This book is fiction based on a real historical event that I was completely unfamiliar with - the Vel d'Hiv roundup. I liked how the author ties in the story of a young Jewish girl (Sarah) in 1942 with a modern day American story of a woman obsessed with finding out what happened to Sarah. While some aspects of the story are a bit predictable, I kept wanting to know what was to happen next and specifically, what happened with Sarah's story.