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williamsocnwld 's review for:
The Librarian of Burned Books
by Brianna Labuskes
I loved this one! Such complex interactions between characters, & allegory that subtly(?)weaves through the story & America today! There was such a pure a-ha moment for me towards the end when the author so elegantly gave a character words to describe how we move forward from wrongdoings great and small to offer up forgiveness to those who were in a position to, but didn’t know, were willfully (or otherwise) ignorent, & didn’t do better at the time, but once they did know better or have their eyes opened to see what was occurring, immediately begin to take steps toward remediation, apology, better choices, whatever they could to counteract and make the lives of others that much better. How can people who were not alive or could not have known better atone for their past or a collective past? A lot of food for thought beyond the horrors of war. Moving on from choices we made in the past and cannot change…still working through that in an attempt to make the world a better place with what we now know-that definitely hit home and left me hopeful. Great recommendation from NY Public Library!