What if you awakened one day and realized your parents were part of unspeakable evil? Do you turn away from them and therefore yourself? The unique coming of age story of Liesel and her preoccupation with finding her neighbor’s son is extremely eventful and takes the reader from postwar Germany to England, Africa and the United States. It explores interconnectedness between victim and perpetrator and touches on universal themes of family, forgiveness, guilt and justice. This candid account of a family’s history combined with a flawed protagonist’s sexual history will strike deep emotional responses in a thoughtful reader.

• ISBN: 9780741427779
• Author: Appel, Liesel
• Published: 2005 , Infinity Pub
• Themes: Coming of age, Family, forgiveness, Guilt, Holocaust, Identity, justice, Nazis, postwar
• Descriptors: Germany, Nonfiction, Young Adult (ages 14-18)
• No. of pages: 420