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What a wonderful story! Sepetys takes a relatively obscure chapter in the Soviet history of oppression of dissidents and gives it an unflinching look through the eyes of Lina, a 15 year old Lithuanian girl. She and her family are uprooted from their home in 1941, her father thrown in prison, and the rest of her family shipped hundreds and thousands of miles away in cattle cars to Siberia. The hardships are portrayed with accuracy. Her mother keeps her and her brother Jonas alive almost through j
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