Monday, October 19, 2015

Girl at war, by Sara Novic



Another well-written book to come out of the conflicts in the Balkans during the end of the last century.  Ana Juric’s family lives in Zagreb and their world is torn apart when Ana is ten years old.   As war draws closer, the family’s life is further complicated by the illness of Ana’s nine-month-old sister, Rahela.  When a chance opens up to take Rahela to Sarajevo and from there send her to America for treatment, they feel they must take it.  But on the way back home, the family is ambushed and Ana is the sole survivor.  The novel then shifts to Ana’s life in America and how she came to be there and living in the same household that welcomed her sister five years earlier.  Her difficulty in reconciling her losses in Croatia and what she had to do to survive there with the present day comfort of a stable existence is the core of the book.  316 pp.

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