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Sarah's Key by Tatiana de Rosnay
4.0

Told from two perspectives that alternate chapter by chapter, this book is about 10-year-old Sarah whose family in Paris is torn apart by the Vel d'Hiv roundup of Jews in 1942 and 40-something Julia, a U.S. expat reporter living in Paris who is writing about the roundup for its 60th anniversary in 2002. While it's patently obvious from about the second or third chapter how their lives will intersect, watching it all unfold as you read it is still very interesting.