December 26, 2011. Playa Royale, Mexico. Sarah's Key.

This is a wonderful little book, written by Titiana de Rosnay.  It is another of a long line of books written about real people and their lives from the Second World War.  The writing is beautiful and sparse and  tells an interesting and tragic story.  It is a novel but tells of a real event that occurred in Paris in 1942.  The story needs to be told as anti=semitism is alive and well in France...once again.

It is interesting how so many people kept secret their terrible experiences  during the second world war.  On a personal note,  Suzanne's grandfather Capps, went to war a normal person in 1943 and returned 'shell shocked' in 1945, not able to be around loud noises or many people.  No one did anything except his parents bought him a ranch in the Hill Country where he lived the rest of his life.  He never talked to anyone about his experiences.  He never complained.  But he could not function as a normal human being.

Now we are reading a bit about what really happened to people during the war.  This book is another in that ilk and is worth reading.