“Address Unknown” by Kathrine Kressman Taylor (1938)

“Back in Germany!”

Although I try and avoid books about war, simply because it’s all too much for my small brain to deal with and I like my books more joyful, some of them just have to be read. If Anne Frank’s diaries and Maus should be compulsory reading, so should Address Unknown.

A very short novella, the book is told entirely in letters dated between 1932 and 1934. Martin, a Gentile, has returned to Germany and continues a friendship by letter with his Jewish colleague in America, Max. In 19...