A review by debionken
Sisters Under the Rising Sun by Heather Morris

4.0

I was interested in reading this book having learned about the Japanese POW camps from my in laws who were imprisoned in Indonesia because, while they were Dutch Indonesians (Indos) they were Dutch citizens. It’s a part of WWII we don’t hear much about. My in laws wouldn’t speak too much about their experiences except to say their Japanese captors were brutal and that they had witnessed many atrocities and starvation. I think Heather Morris does a nice job of telling this story relating the experiences of these women while avoiding overly fictionalizing it and because I listened to the audio version I really appreciated hearing Margaret’s hymn and Nora’s Bolero arrangement for voice.