★★★
GENRE: General Fiction
SUBJECT: Holocaust survival
Setting: Westerbrook, NH, Auschwitz, Poland
CHARACTERS: Sage Singer, Leo Stein, Minka, Josef Weber
DATE READ: July 23 - July 29
NO. OF PAGES: 460
Off the Shelf (pre-2013)? Source?: no, Public library
PLOT:.........................................3.00
CHARACTERIZATION:............3.00
TOPICS:.....................................4.00
STYLE:.......................................3.00
ORIGINALITY:............................3.00
ADDICTIVENESS:....................2.50
OWNERSHIP:............................2.50
Threshold Quality.......................3.00
Average..............................................................3.00
Sage Singer, an atheist of Jewish descent, works at a religious bakery. Having been scarred, she hides in the back and works during the night. One day she is introduced to an old man and they become friends. But here is where the story gets weird. Josef informs Sage that he was a Nazi SS officer and that wants her to kill him.
The story is also that of Sage's grandmother and her survival during the Holocaust as well as a story that her grandmother wrote during her youth and incarceration at Auschwitz.
At times, the stories were difficult to follow because they kept jumping back and forth.
The ladies in my book club rave about Jodi Picoult so we selected this one for July. I had read My Sister's Keeper but was not impressed so I was hoping that this one would be better. The story was okay but I felt that the characters were a bit stereotypical and lacked originality.
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