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What was Anne’s life like before WWII arrived on the scene and she and her family hid in the Annex?
Hoffman has taken the pieces from Anne’s pre-hiding parts of her diary and some family history and turned it into a full blown speculative novel about her life in Amsterdam leading up to WWII. In her postscript she acknowledges that most of it is her own fabrication. I wish the book had been about any other Holocaust victim than Anne Frank. There are so many other stories that deserve to be told. I feel like it is “easy money” to use Anne’s name instead. I would pass this up for Code Name Kingfisher or Sky Over Rebecca, which are recent Holocaust novels not evoking Anne Frank.
Cindy, Middle School Librarian, MLS
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