Book description
An elderly woman recounts her Dutch family’s survival during the final years of Nazi occupation, shedding new light on old secrets that rippled through subsequent generations.
Eighty-year-old Mieke Geborn’s life is one of quiet routine. Widowed for many years, she enjoys the view from her home on the New Jersey…
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1 author picked Our Narrow Hiding Places as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
This wonderful novel is about a family in the Netherlands during World War II, including the Hunger Winter. It also alternates with the characters decades later and how they coped with the trauma of the war in the years after.
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