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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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A perspective on the Holocaust that I hadn’t come across before- circuses that sheltered Jews. There are two heroines in this story, both with tragedy and secrets in their past, but who are initially thrown together as one trains the other as an aerialist. Noa has to learn the flying trapeze to stay within the shelter of the circus, with her small chosen burden. The war has changed everything and the circus is threatened, along with all of its people. I read this in a couple of days, a fast and
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Mar 01, 2017
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May 07, 2017
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Mar 31, 2018
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Jun 03, 2018
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Aug 20, 2018
Brenda
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Johanne
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Jun 30, 2021
Kirsten Barber
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