Between Shades of Gray
Ruta Sepetys, 2011
Lithuania, 1941: a fifteen-year-old artist is deported to Siberia with her mother and brother, and learns what a life is worth.
Ruta Sepetys
Sepetys was born in Detroit to a Lithuanian refugee father and worked in the music business before turning to fiction; she travelled the Baltics interviewing survivors for this, her debut novel.
Feels like family, dread and war.
The morning a boy's life is priced, and the price fits in a pocket.
Have you ever wondered what a human life is worth? That morning, my brother’s was worth a pocket watch. Books by Ruta Sepetys
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