![]() ![]() ![]() Runyan mostly succeeds at that challenge, but there were a few times I thought, “Really? Still, this is a good story, so I’ll give her the benefit of the doubt and continue.” That challenge is posited to the reader in the first three chapters as they open from varying points of view at varying points in time. It stretches the story’s credulity to think that these people would have stories set in California and Germany intertwine again and again over 60 years. Runyan generally succeeds in this attempt – although she relies on a series of coincidences which seem improbable. Altogether, it mixes together several thematic tales – of love, of the horrors of war, of family, of Jewish and Christian identity, of women overcoming obstacles, and of the power of the individual in authoritarian regimes. It enticingly employs a technique called “triple narrative” in which the plot is told from three perspectives across varying timelines. This story is founded historically off of events around the Western European front of World War II. ![]()
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