This Light Between Us: A Novel of World War II
Andrew Fukuda
Beginning in 1935, ten-year-old Alex Maki, a Japanese American boy on Bainbridge Island, Washington, exchanges letters with Charlie Lévy, a French Jewish girl in Paris. Their correspondence begins reluctantly after Alex discovers that Charlie is not the boy he expected. As Nazi persecution grows and Japan attacks Pearl Harbor, the letters cross the Atlantic against the backdrop of war. Alex and Charlie hold onto memories of their exchange through the horrors that follow.
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