Christina Shea's Smuggled
It's 1944, and 5-year-old Eva is smuggled across the border from Hungary to Romania to save her from the Holocaust. She's given a new identity and a whole new life, growing to adulthood during the rise and fall of Communism (the book does an excellent job of showing what life in the Eastern Bloc was like) with very complicated feelings about Jews and Judaism. Really great characters and Shea does an especially good job with the atmosphere. A-. Oh, and don't read the Amazon description, it gives the whole end away.
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An e-galley was provided by the publisher.
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