A college student in New York begins to come to grips with her childhood in Croatia, eventually returning to confront a tragic moment in her past in Girl at War by Sara Novic.
The story runs in parallel lines; in the past, the young woman tries to understand the growing conflict in the context of her families' problems; and in the present, her older self finds she is struggling more and more to hide aspects of her childhood from her boyfriend and adopted family.
Novic grew up in Croatia during wartime and now lives in the United States, so I am sure she drew a lot on her own history for this striking, sometimes harrowing, debut novel. It is an important story in that it reveals sides to this conflict that hasn't always been portrayed in American storytelling.
I checked this out from the Morrisson-Reeves Public Library in Richmond Indiana and read it quickly.
The story runs in parallel lines; in the past, the young woman tries to understand the growing conflict in the context of her families' problems; and in the present, her older self finds she is struggling more and more to hide aspects of her childhood from her boyfriend and adopted family.
Novic grew up in Croatia during wartime and now lives in the United States, so I am sure she drew a lot on her own history for this striking, sometimes harrowing, debut novel. It is an important story in that it reveals sides to this conflict that hasn't always been portrayed in American storytelling.
I checked this out from the Morrisson-Reeves Public Library in Richmond Indiana and read it quickly.
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