Reviews tagging 'Animal death'

We Must Not Think of Ourselves by Lauren Grodstein

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• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

5.0

Reading about the traumas and atrocities inflicted upon the Jewish communities of Europe during WWII is never easy.  It shouldn't be.  However Lauren Grodstein manages to do something special with this novel about life in the Warsaw Ghetto.  The best way I can describe it is that, while immersing the reader in that bleak existence of day-to-day survival, she has highlighted the human nature to make connections and find joy even in the most dire, despicable circumstances.  

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Infidelity, Death, Genocide, Animal death, Confinement, Mass/school shootings, Child death, Antisemitism, and Death of parent

Moderate: Infertility and Murder