![]() ![]() History reports that none of the French Jews who went to Auschwitz ever came back the only ones who lived are those very few who managed to escape before they arrived at Auschwitz. Sarah’s family is arrested by the French police, along with many other Jews, and taken to the Vélodrome d’Hiver outside the city where they are kept for a few days before they are shipped off to Auschwitz. The other story is Sarah’s, a ten-year-old Jewish girl living in Paris with her family during WWII. The story of Sarah’s Key switches between two story lines – one is Julia, a forty-year old journalist who moved to Paris after college, married a handsome, arrogant Frenchman and has lived there ever since. My mom suggested Sarah’s Key book (after her bookclub read it) since I tend to like historical fiction, so I’d downloaded it and listened to it while I made batch after batch of lemon cream (what, you don’t think an audiobook is a good excuse for endless sweets making?). I love it when the stars align and the book announced for bookclub is one I’m already reading and nearly done with. Despite the decades between them, Julia discovers that her life links with Sarah’s in unexpected ways. Sarah’s Key alternates between WWII Paris, with a young Jewish girl, Sarah, and a middle-aged journalist, Julia, living in Paris with her French husband and their daughter. ![]()
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