One upside of traveling for work is that I get to catch up on reading. I finished this book on the first leg of my trip to Istanbul.
The True Story of Hansel and Gretel is the story of a Jewish family in Poland during WWII and their desperate struggles to stay alive and to remain together as a family. This was particularly interesting to me because I have always, since elementary school, been interested in this era of recent history. The fact that the story takes place in Poland was even more compelling to me because I actually visited Auschwitz, including Birkenau, on a trip to Poland many years ago. Reading about the Holocaust is sobering enough, experiencing that horrific place is chilling and nauseating. This book does an impressive job of capturing that spirit while creating characters that are endearingly human.
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