A young woman moves across an ocean to uncover the truth about her grandparents' mysterious estrangement and pieces together the extraordinary story of their wartime experiences
In 1948, after surviving World War II by escaping Nazi-occupied France for refugee camps in Switzerland, the author's grandparents, Anna and Armand, bought an old stone house in a remote, picturesque village in the South of France. Five years later, Anna packed her bags and walked out on Armand, taking the typewriter and their children. Aside from one brief encounter, the two never saw or spoke to each other again, never remarried, and never revealed what had divided them forever.
This book started out very interesting. But I quickly became disallusioned with it. The author kept switching between periods of her life with different grandparents. Then she would switch conversations with different grandparents. She would also bring in different characters. Which made me keep searching the book to find out who they were supposed to be. I found it to be very tedious to read. I would not recommended this book unless you like to search through a book.
I received this book from Blogging for Books as a review copy.
