An interesting story, especially knowing it was based on real people in these events. However, I struggled to keep up with the jumps in time. Perhaps if I had the book rather than an audiobook this would have been easier, but I wonder if I would have finished the book if I hadn't listened to it. While the story follows the family through incredible and terrifying situations and their relationships change, I never felt like any of them were fully developed as characters. Instead, it felt like each event was something that happened to them, and then they went somewhere else and the next thing happened. That said, it was a new look at the leftist ideologies across the globe that I didn't expect to find in a novel.