Jessica's Review: Fugitive Pieces by Ann Michaels

Fugitive Pieces is a fantastic book told by a man who as a Jewish child in Nazi Germany had to listen to his parents be murdered as he hid for his life in a wall. This man is Jakob Beer and at that young age he literally rose from the mud to be saved by Athos Roussos. Athos took Jakob to live with him in Greece where he taught Jakob to love the earth he came from and love the structure of life around him. I believe that the story of the changes and most importantly the influences in his life to be fascinating. He went through times beyond difficult during his life and was the better man for it. I would recommend this book to readers interested in either post-Holocaust or philosophical stories.
Rating: 5Q, 2P

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