![]() She recounts days spent swimming with her cousin Joana, shopping with her mother, discussing politics and seeing her father's warm smile when she is accepted into a prestigious art program.Īfter a deadly trip across the Soviet Union in a boxcar, Lina and her family arrive in Siberia. ![]() The story unfolds from Lina's point of view in short and manageable chapters with flashbacks of her former life, which are often italicized. ![]() The Baltic countries of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia lost "more than a third of their population." In "Between Shades of Gray," a new novel by Ruta Sepetys, the story is told through the eyes of 15-year-old Lithuanian Lina Vilkas, who, along with her family, suffered this nightmare. Few think of the Soviet Union, Joseph Stalin and the additional millions who died after being forcibly transported to slave labor camps in Siberia. Mention World War II, and most people think of Germany, Hitler and the millions of Jews who died. ![]()
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