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Aug 23, 2018
Rachel N.
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Noa has been kicked out of her house after becoming pregnant by a Nazi officer and after giving birth her baby is taken away and she finds work as a cleaner at a German railway station. A train car full of babies without parents stops at the station and Noa takes one and flees. She ends up at a circuses winter quarters and is paired with Astrid to learn the trapeze. The book alternates between Noa and Astrid's POV. The story was well told but for whatever reason I never connected with Noa or Ast
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