They Went Left by Monica Hesse

They Went Left by Monica Hesse

The New York Times bestselling, Sydney Taylor Honor winning, critically acclaimed tour de force historical mystery from Monica Hesse, author of Girl in the Blue Coat Germany, 1945. The soldiers who liberated the Gross-Rosen concentration camp said the war was over, but nothing feels over to eighteen-year-old Zofia Lederman. Her body has barely begun to heal, her mind feels broken. And her life is completely shattered: Three years ago, she and her younger brother, Abek, were the only members of their family to be sent to the right, away from the gas chambers of Auschwitz-Birkenau. Everyone else--her parents, her grandmother, radiant Aunt Maja--they went left. Zofia's last words to her brother were a promise: Abek to Zofia, A to Z. When I find you again, we will fill our alphabet. Now her journey to fulfill that vow takes her through Poland and Germany, and into a displaced persons camp where everyone she meets is trying to piece together a future from a painful past: Miriam, desperately searching for the twin she was separated from after they survived medical experimentation. Breine, a former heiress, who now longs only for a simple wedding with her new fianc . And Josef, who guards his past behind a wall of secrets, and is beautiful and strange and magnetic all at once.

But the deeper Zofia digs, the more impossible her search seems. How can she find one boy in a sea of the missing? In the rubble of a broken continent, Zofia must delve into a mystery whose answers could break her--or help her rebuild her world.

Monica Hesse is a Washington Post feature writer. She is the author of Girl in the Blue Coat, which won the Edgar Award and was a finalist for the Livingston and James Beard Awards. She currently resides in Washington, DC.

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ISBN 13	9780316490573
ISBN 10	0316490571
Title	They Went Left
Author	Monica Hesse
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Little, Brown & Company
Year published	2020-04-07
Number of pages	384
Prizes	Commended for Sydney Taylor Book Award (Young Adult) 2021
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