The Book of Lost Names
Kristin Harmel, 2020
A young woman in wartime France helps Jewish children escape by forging new identities—and keeps a coded record of their real names.
Kristin Harmel
Kristin Harmel is an American novelist and former magazine journalist; The Book of Lost Names draws on the real wartime forgers who created false papers for Jewish children.
Feels like identity, hope and memory.
What is left of you once the labels are stripped away?
But we aren’t defined by the names we carry or the religion we practice, or the nation whose flag flies over our heads. I know that now. We’re defined by who we are in our hearts, who we choose to be on this earth. Books by Kristin Harmel
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