A review by kohava
Briar Rose by Jane Yolen

3.0

An excellent take on the classic fairy tale of Sleeping Beauty (which the Grimm brothers called Briar Rose). A young journalist named Rebecca is following her grandmother Gemma's deathbed wish, that she find the Castle and the Hedge of Thorns that Gemma swore she escaped from. As Becca begins to look for Gemma's past, what she finds is...nothing. Gemma had no official name, no proof of marriage, and left no trace but a few items in a rose-engraved box.

A really moving story at an American's experience in post-war Germany and Poland.