This month's book club selection was Sarah's Key by Tatiana de Rosnay. It has been very popular with book clubs for at least a year now, if you haven't read it please do. You will Thank me.
The voice of the story alternates between Sarah a young Jewish girl living in France in 1942 and Julia an American living in Paris with her French husband.
The editor of the magazine Julia writes for assigns a pieces on the Velodrome d'Hiver roundup on July 16, 1942. Through her research she learns of a little girl who was taken away along with her parents on that day, and the awful secret she carried with her.
Julia has her own story as well. An unfaithful husband, a series of miscarriages, a cherished family member who is dying all become part of the story as Julia learns about the people, especially the children of the Vel' d'Hiv'.
This book covers so much. It includes the Holocaust, mystery, family relationship, healing and survival. Forgiveness is crucial to many parts of this story; the forgiveness of others but also of self.
For those of us who discussed Sarah's Key last night it was a doorway into many events that occurred during WWII.. We were glad to have read the book. Some used to book as a starting point for further reading. Others had read other histories and fictions that gave us further discussion and information. I think I am speaking for all of us when I say read this book.
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