Author Pam Jenoff takes readers underground, and keeps them on the edge of their seats.
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Unthinkable.
That s what this situation is: unthinkable, with a line you won t cross no matter what. You ve thought about it, considered all possible solutions, studied this whole thing from many angles, and in the end, there s just no way. But as in the new novel, The Woman With the Blue Star by Pam Jenoff, never say never.
At 18 years old, Sadie Gault was hardly a child anymore.
Still, as her mother argued, Sadie was small and looked years younger than she was. She was small enough to hide in the attic from the German soldiers, small enough to fit into a clothing trunk. Sadie s Papa said that it was better not to hide, better that she get registered, that the Germans weren t taking Jewish workers, but there was always that danger .
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