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Between Shades of Gray was Ruta Sepetys’s debut novel. The story follows Lina Vilkas, a fifteen year old from Lithuania whose family is uprooted in the middle of the night by Soviet forces. Lina, her mother Elena, and her brother Jonas are crowded into a crammed train car with other people taken by the NKVD. They are transported to work in a camp, where they live under cruel and unsanitary conditions. Lina longs to reconnect with her father who was taken away before the rest of her family was, and she aims to contact him by leaving a trail of her drawings for him. Her drawings outline her experiences and time under the Soviet forces.
This book was unbelievably amazing. I knew it had very positive reviews and was praised for its honesty and beauty. It definitely lives up to that positivity. On a number scale, I’d give this book a 4.8/5 or higher. Its chapters are short and the book stays at a fairly fast pace despite its subject matter, so it’s a quick and enjoyable read. I recommend this to anyone who enjoys historical fiction, books centering around the War era, and anyone in general who is looking for a beautiful and meaningful read.
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