Annelies
Gillham, David R.
Genre:
The year is 1945
and Anne Frank is sixteen years old. Having survived the concentration camps
but lost her mother and sister
she reunites with her father
Pim
in newly liberated Amsterdam. But it's not as easy to fit the pieces of their life back together. Anne is adrift
haunted by the ghosts of the horrors they experienced
while Pim is fixated on returning to normalcy. Her beloved diary has been lost
and her dreams of becoming a writer seem distant and pointless now. As Anne struggles to overcome the brutality of memory and build a new life for herself
she grapples with heartbreak
grief
and ultimately the freedom of forgiveness.
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