Negative Positive
Title: An Author Who Gave Us...
Review: Jenna Blum is an author who has given us a wonderfully complex view into the not-so-distant past. To say too much about the plot gives too much away, so I won't. What I will say is that I read this entire novel in one day - I literally could not put it down. The novel alternates between Nazi-torn Germany in the harrows of WW2 and the relatively boredom of present-day university in America. Blum provides beautiful and excellently-written dual viewpoints, and a unique perspective that is seldom seen in literature about this period. Seldom do we explore life from a the inside the mind and body of a German citizen, to see how one's ability to "make a difference" can be so severely inhibited. And seldom are we able to survey the complexities of "survivor's guilt" on such a personal level.
Is the review positive or negative? 