![]() On a calm evening in Lithuania, 1941, Lina and her brother and mother are arrested by the Soviet police for the counter-Soviet actions of her father. They have twenty minutes to pack anything that could be helpful to them, and they are taken to the train station to board cattle cars. Over the next two years, Lina, her brother and her mother experience the brutality of the NKVD (Russian police) as they are forced to work and travel from Lithuania all the way across Russia and into the Arctic Circle. I do not tend to enjoy historical fiction relating to WW2, but this novel is powerful. Sepetys did quite a bit of research into the experiences of the thousands of Europeans who were arrested by the Soviet Union and put into labor camps far from their homes. Sepetys' diligence and Lina's narrative voice combine for a compelling reading experience.
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