This book is a beautifully crafted, evocative piece. Comprising of three stories, each one becoming slightly more separated from the War it gives an interested perspective. We watch the war happening through a bystander, live through the immediate aftermath with the children of Nazi’s and who is likely a Jew and deal with the moral consequences two generations later. This final part, told by Micah, is the most interesting. It brings up questions such as who should feel guilty? Should knowledge of what our loved relatives did change how we feel about them? And when we learn the truth what should we do with that information? Ultimately, Dark Room doesn’t answer any of these questions - likely as there can be no correct answer. But underlying all of this is a subdued notion of when will the Germans ‘be allowed’ stop feeling guilty for what their ancestors have done.