Ashes in the Snow by Ruta Sepetys is a work of historical fiction about when the Russians under orders from Stalin took people from Lithuania to Siberia and put them in a work-concentration camp. The main characters are Lina--16-yr.-old girl, her brother Jonas and their mother. Their father was taken separately! The writing in this book is really good. I got a real sense of what these people went through by reading this. It was a good book to finish the year.
(Gerard's review, 5++ stars)
Teaser from page 43:
Siberia? That couldn't be right. Siberia was half a world away. There was nothing in Siberia.
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