What I’m Reading: The Story That Cannot Be Told

The Story That Cannot Be Told is a YA novel by J. Kasper Kramer about Ileana, an eleven-year-old girl who lives in Bucharest, Romania, in the summer of 1989. And right here, I need to make a point, because to an adult the tone of this story will be different than for the age group it’s aimed at. An adult will remember that 1989 was the year of the Communist revolutions in eastern Europe, and may even remember that Romania’s took place rather late in the year, in December, and was quite bloody co...