A Night Divided
by Jennifer A. Nielson
Format: Hardback
Price: Free...checked out from the school library
Price: Free...checked out from the school library
How I heard about it: A student recommended it
Basic Premise: When the Berlin Wall goes up with half her family in East Germany and half her family in West, Gerta begins to plan the unthinkable - an escape to the West.
My Take: 7.5 out of 10 (scale here)
This was a very interesting book. The older I get, the more interested I find myself in historical fiction. I have done a lot of reading about Germany during the second world war but not much about after. That part of this was really, really intriguing. The actual story was less so. The author was unspecific about many things I wanted more information about (which isn't completely unusual) but the kicker was that the method and success of the escape were all so outrageous that there was no way to suspend my disbelief. There is NO WAY this could have happened. The YAL part of it did slow me up a bit - I'd love to find some historical fiction about this time period with a little more grit.
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