6/21/2023 0 Comments Book review we were the lucky ones![]() A brave and mesmerizing debut, and a truly tremendous accomplishment." This is their story Hunter is telling so beautifully and profoundly, and ours as well. But the true wonder of the book is how convincingly Hunter inhabits these characters, each modeled after her own family members. Her engrossing and deeply affecting account of how the Kurc family survives the Holocaust, against every possible odd, will leave you breathless. "Reading Georgia Hunter's We Were the Lucky Ones is like being swung heart first into history. ![]() ![]() Selected as a Great Group Read by the Women's National Book Association Hunter sidesteps hollow sentimentality and nihilism, revealing instead the beautiful complexity and ambiguity of life in this extraordinarily moving tale." "The story that so grippingly comes across in the pages of We Were the Lucky Ones isn't strictly fiction-the characters and events that inhabit this Holocaust survival story are based on her family's own history." ![]() We come to care deeply about the fate of each of these resourceful, determined characters." Her novel brings the Kurcs to life in heart-pounding detail, from passionate young love and beloved traditions to narrow escapes, heartbreaking choices, starvation, imprisonment and torture. "Turning history into fiction can be tricky, especially when using real names and details. ![]()
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