A very heartfelt and well written look at both the difficulty refugee French Jews escaping WW2 faced, and the difficult choices mothers had to make and literally war with during that time. All during the book I kept asking myself what choice I would make if I hadn’t known how the war ended, and I can’t say I actually know, proving how insurmountable that choice would have been for those mothers.

I also love how the authors note at the end personalizes the mothering aspect of it and how she related. I felt that in her explanation and it further identified the story for me.