OK… I have left my grumpiness on the last blog. It is POURING outside and I love it! Nothing like a downpour to wash away my day. I hate when I finish a good book… you know, the one that pulls you right into the pages.
I had bought this book awhile ago. I must have tried to read it when I was distracted and did not give it a fair start. It sat there till a friend of mine mentioned liking it (Thanks, Rena)!
I loved it. It sucked me into the pages. If you are looking for a good read… learning a little of history along the way … this is a book for you. LOVED IT!
Sarah’s Key, written by Tatiana De Rosnayis about the “1942 Paris roundups and deportations, in which thousands of Jewish families were arrested, held at the Vélodrome d’Hiver outside the city, then transported to Auschwitz. Forty-five-year-old Julia Jarmond, American by birth, moved to Paris when she was 20 and is married to the arrogant, unfaithful Bertrand Tézac, with whom she has an 11-year-old daughter. Julia writes for an American magazine and her editor assigns her to cover the 60th anniversary of the Vél’ d’Hiv’ roundups. Julia soon learns that the apartment she and Bertrand plan to move into was acquired by Bertrand’s family when its Jewish occupants were dispossessed and deported 60 years before. She resolves to find out what happened to the former occupants: Wladyslaw and Rywka Starzynski, parents of 10-year-old Sarah and four-year-old Michel. The more Julia discovers—especially about Sarah, the only member of the Starzynski family to survive—the more she uncovers about Bertrand’s family, about France and, finally, herself. (Taken from Publisher’s Weekly)