What is Mommy Reading? – “Sarah’s Key”

Just finished reading “Sarah’s Key” by, Tatiana de Rosnay.  It was SO GOOD!!!  I could not put this book down!  It literally had me from page one!  I loved the contrast of hearing Sarah’s story from the past and Julia’s story in the future.  The chapters were SUPER short and the font switched with the voices.  I kept wanting to find out what was happening, so I could not put the book down!!!  I would think to myself, the chapters are so short just one more……..then it was 2am.  Obviously, I HIGHLY recommend this book.  Very historical and emotional.  Some parts may be hard for some people to digest, but the book is so worth the read!!!  The entire group at my book club LOVED it!




Here is a description of the book (book is 293 pages): 

De Rosnay’s U.S. debut fictionalizes the 1942 Paris roundups and deportations, in which thousands of Jewish families were arrested, held at the Vélodrome d’Hiver outside the city, then transported to Auschwitz. Forty-five-year-old Julia Jarmond, American by birth, moved to Paris when she was 20 and is married to the arrogant, unfaithful Bertrand Tézac, with whom she has an 11-year-old daughter. Julia writes for an American magazine and her editor assigns her to cover the 60th anniversary of the Vél’ d’Hiv’ roundups. Julia soon learns that the apartment she and Bertrand plan to move into was acquired by Bertrand’s family when its Jewish occupants were dispossessed and deported 60 years before. She resolves to find out what happened to the former occupants: Wladyslaw and Rywka Starzynski, parents of 10-year-old Sarah and four-year-old Michel. The more Julia discovers—especially about Sarah, the only member of the Starzynski family to survive—the more she uncovers about Bertrand’s family, about France and, finally, herself. Already translated into 15 languages, the novel is De Rosnay’s 10th (but her first written in English, her first language). It beautifully conveys Julia’s conflicting loyalties, and makes Sarah’s trials so riveting, her innocence so absorbing, that the book is hard to put down.” – Amazon.com


Personal Rating:On a scale of 1-10 (10 being the highest), I would rate this book an 9.5.  I overall loved the book!!! The second half of the book slowed down a little, but not enough to bring down how great the book is.  You can get the book now on Amazon!  Just click on the book on the right sidebar to order!

Have you read this book?  What did you think?  What rating would you give it?  
Kristin

Comments

  1. This sounds like a great book. I haven’t read it yet but I’m fixing to get busy reading, I read from start to finish in winter ha. I can’t get enough of reading. Very nice review, I stumbled this post.

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  3. Love this book!

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  6. I’m so glad someone out there appreciates this book as much as I do. Definitely a heart wrenching novel, but well worth the tears.

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