A review by kymme
Love & Treasure by Ayelet Waldman

4.0

Really enjoyed this tale told across decades and continents, with the primary story surrounding a pendant lost to a Hungarian Jewish woman during WWII and the journey it and those it found itself "belonging" to both after and before that seemingly final loss. A love story, or two, a story of unlikely friendship, a story of rebellion gone wrong, a story of psychoanalysis before it settled on clear rules. I've read a lot of Holocaust novels, but never one set largely in Hungary, never one that described the aftermath in terms of displaced persons and hidden former Nazis and American troops, never one that went into the feelings of Jews who escaped for those who survived. This book will keep me thinking for a long time.