![]() ![]() He has to whisper, he has to write, he has to not trust anyone. He looks at his surrounding and knows-knows that life shouldn’t be this way, soundless, cold, filled with fear, only that he can’t say it aloud. Cristian Florescu, a high school student during the communist years of Romania, is the one to catch her attention this time. Like in her other novels, Sepetys focuses on teenagers and on an important moment of their life. Again, not that it changed anything really, only impressed me more. It didn’t actually change the reading experience, but it did make me see everything in a new light and perhaps appreciate her writing even more. ![]() ![]() Probably my favorite fun fact about an author, but Ruta Sepetys is a Lithuanian American whose father was refugee. 1 min read Together, we can shine a light in dark corners of the past. ![]()
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