A review by laureninthebuf
The Night Diary by Veera Hiranandani

4.0

Another great buddy read during our homeschool geography study of Asia. I vaguely knew about the splitting of India and Pakistan, but not of the details and certainly not of the scale of the violence. The author’s note says the split of India and Pakistan led to the largest migration in human history and a million lives (or more!) were lost in the fighting that ensued. Hard to believe this was less than a century ago. The conversations this sparked in our home were valuable. 4 stars only because we had some difficulty with keeping the reading momentum going at some points.