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Jodi Picoult - The Storyteller - 2013



Was afraid this would be to girly (romance) for me, but it wasn't until the end. Story of a young woman who works as a baker. Grief counseling sessions lead her to an acquaintance with a 90 year old man who asks her to kill him. Turns out he was an SS guard in Germany in WWII. His wife had recently died, he wanted to join her and
had a little guilt hanging over him. The twist comes when the woman finds out her grandmother was in the same concentration camp and was a witness to much of the
brutality. About half of the book is the grandmother telling her story of survival. The best part for me. The subject fascinates me. Just how that could happen. all the
questions. The old man gets his wish, the young woman meets her love interest in the man that helps her tie the loose ends, and they live happily ever after.Although
this is a work of fiction, the treatment of the jews during the grandmothers story seems pretty accurate.

Grade - B

next up - The Holocaust by Martin Gilbert