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A review by blodeuedd
This Light Between Us by Andrew Fukuda
3.0
I knew it would come a time when this would turn sad, and I kept on hoping that there would be light at the end of that tunnel.
Two 10 year olds become penpals. A world apart, and they will come to mean everything to each other. Alex is Japanese-American, who grows up on a strawberry farm. Charlie is Jewish and lives in Paris.
They keep on writing and the years go by. Charlie sees how people change, soon there are Germans in the streets, but nothing bad could ever happen, right?
For Alex is happens faster. Pearl Harbor, growing tension, interment camps.
People are stupid, people are evil. Why weren't every German American or Italian American in camps then too? I guess there had to be on evil enemy that did not look like the rest. I guess one has to be grateful that everyone was just not killed outright.
And I kept wondering about Charlie. Since there are no more letters due to obvious reasons we have no idea knowing what happens to her.
The cover does tell that he will enlist. And of course he will search for her, and break my heart.
The narrator was great. He sounded familiar, but I have not listened to him before. He did well with their different voices and I felt I was right there, on suicide hill.
A good book, that would make a really good movie. Oh this is really one of those that needs to be a movie too. Especially in these times.
Two 10 year olds become penpals. A world apart, and they will come to mean everything to each other. Alex is Japanese-American, who grows up on a strawberry farm. Charlie is Jewish and lives in Paris.
They keep on writing and the years go by. Charlie sees how people change, soon there are Germans in the streets, but nothing bad could ever happen, right?
For Alex is happens faster. Pearl Harbor, growing tension, interment camps.
People are stupid, people are evil. Why weren't every German American or Italian American in camps then too? I guess there had to be on evil enemy that did not look like the rest. I guess one has to be grateful that everyone was just not killed outright.
And I kept wondering about Charlie. Since there are no more letters due to obvious reasons we have no idea knowing what happens to her.
The cover does tell that he will enlist. And of course he will search for her, and break my heart.
The narrator was great. He sounded familiar, but I have not listened to him before. He did well with their different voices and I felt I was right there, on suicide hill.
A good book, that would make a really good movie. Oh this is really one of those that needs to be a movie too. Especially in these times.