With the same attention to detail and straightforward writing style readers have come to appreciate from her, Deborah Hopkinson looks at how the rescue operation of Jewish children from Nazi occupied Europe, known as the Kindertransport, was able to saved approximately 10,000 young people. In the first half of this fascinating history , Hopkinson details Hitler's rise to power and ties its impact into the lives of a number of Jewish families. Most people don't realize just how widespread anti-Semitic feelings were in 1930s Germany, but as Hitler became more popular, as his followers increased, many Jews who had believed themselves to be as German as their non-Jewish neighbors began to experience a definite change. For example, Jewish men were arrested and sent to concentration camps for no reason, prohibitions were enacted so that Jews in civil service lost their jobs, Jews couldn't go to the movies or visit a park, Jewish children were no longer allowed to attend German s...
Author: Justina Chen
Publisher: Arthur A. Levine Books
Publication Date: July 31, 2018
Synopsis: What would you do if the sun became your enemy?
That's exactly what happens to Viola Li after she returns from a trip abroad and develops a sudden and extreme case of photosensitivity -- an inexplicable allergy to sunlight. Thanks to her crisis-manager parents, she doesn't just have to wear layers of clothes and a hat the size of a spaceship. She has to stay away from all hint of light. Say goodbye to windows and running outdoors. Even her phone becomes a threat when its screen burns her.
Viola is determined to maintain a normal life, particularly after she meets Josh. He's a funny, talented Thor look-alike who carries his own mysterious grief. But the intensity of their romance makes her take more and more risks, and when a rebellion against her parents backfires dangerously, she must find her way to a life -- and love -- as deep and lovely as her dreams.
Top Ten Facts I Learned While Writing Lovely, Dark, and Deep:
1. Sudden and inexplicable photosensitivity is a real—if rare—condition. There are actual reported cases where screens—computer and phones—can burn your skin, if you have this condition.
2. Sudden and inexplicable urge to purge a pantry is a real—if unrare—condition when you are procrastinating on writing a tough scene. That bizarre behavior is only matched by the sudden and inexplicable urge to stuff your face with alternating bites of potato chips and dark chocolate, as you comfort eat yourself through writing an emotionally wrenching scene.
3. Periodic sanitizing of your keyboard is essential in the life of a working writer. (See: above.)
4. Temperatures can climb to 117 degrees in Abu Dhabi where Viola (the heroine) wants to go to college.
5. Temperatures can climb to ultra-hot degrees when you are writing a steamy scene (say, one set inside a pick-up truck during a meteor shower).
6. Seattle has an abundance of staircases all over the city. And someone actually mapped them all!
7. Said staircases are the setting for a scene that I hope makes you go: “aww.”
8. Joy is researching all the different desserts and soups that Viola bakes and cooks throughout the book.
9. Deep sadness is discovering all that people with severe photosensitivity must give up.
10. 2017 was named the most dangerous year to be a journalist between being jailed or killed.
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