I'd like to lead this off with this quote, “change who you are simply by climbing on a boat or boarding a train.
Some things you cannot leave behind. Your history will pursue you doggedly across frontiers and over oceans. It will slip past the unsmiling border guards, fold itself invisibly into the pages of your passport, a silent, treacherous stowaway.”
This is important to note along with this quote,“They call my country the land of the free, but I was born poor and black, and there wasn't much free about that .”
In these unsettling and deeply troubling times in seeking justice, equality, and acceptance I had to lead with these quotes.
Paris is for lovers but it's also a place in which a pre-war set off this book into the streets with talent and diversity with ordinary people searching for something they lost.
Complex characters, lyrical prose, with a historical back drop leads way to the brutality of war and the revolutions that soon followed.
Artists, refugees, parents, journalists, and even prostitutes...somehow join this powerful dynamic intimate storytelling magic.
One thing is for sure you won't be able to put this one down...
Thank you to Alex, the pub, NetGalley, and Amazon Kindle for this ARC in exchange for this honest review.
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