Carol Haile
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Ruta Sepetys:
Who was your oldest living relative that you remember? Do you interleave your family's past into your books and have their stories helped shape any of your books?
Ruta Sepetys
Hi Carol,
My family history is quite complex as my father is a refugee, he and his parents fled Lithuania and their history inspired "Between Shades of Grey." I did not include my family's testimony in "Salt to the Sea," though I did have an aunt who had a ticket to board the Gustloff, but never got on the ship.
Thanks for asking!
My family history is quite complex as my father is a refugee, he and his parents fled Lithuania and their history inspired "Between Shades of Grey." I did not include my family's testimony in "Salt to the Sea," though I did have an aunt who had a ticket to board the Gustloff, but never got on the ship.
Thanks for asking!
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Laila
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Ruta Sepetys:
I Loved the Out of the easy and Between shades of grey very much and gave them high ratings, i own lots of books and they are my favorites out of all of them , and i wanted to ask, is there a second part to Out of the easy, because i felt that there were many maybes at the end of the book and would like to know what will happen when Josie returns , so will there be a second book?
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