by Pam Jenoff
I really enjoyed this novel. I feel that although I didn’t love the main character like I should, I admired the secondary characters for who they were and what they stood for. The main character Noa, she frustrated me too much. From the beginning, she wanted her independence but she didn’t have the ...
The familiar theme of the Holocaust is placed into an unfamiliar venue, that of a traveling circus. The novel is loosely based on a true story about a German circus that sheltered a family of Jews during the war. Because the attributes of the characters were reassigned to alternate characters, in or...
Noa has been cast out of her parents house at sixteen after becoming pregnant with a Nazi soldier's baby. After the baby is born with a darker complexion than her perfect Aryan features, the baby is taken from her. Noa finds work at a train station where she must watch people come through on their w...
The Orphan's Tale by Pam Jenoff follows Noa, a sixteen year old girl, who's father kicks her out of the house for getting pregnant by a Nazi soldier, and we are given the story from Noa's POV. We are later introduced to Astrid, a trapeze performer with the German circus, and we get the story from he...
A special thank you to NetGalley and Harlequin Canada MIRA for an ARC in exchange for an honest review. The story opens with a 90-year-old woman visiting a museum exhibit that transports her back in time to war-torn Europe in 1944. After becoming pregnant by a Nazi solder at sixteen, Noa is forc...
Noa was thrown out of her parents' home because she had become pregnant to a German soldier but needed to leave after the Germans took her baby.As Noa made her way out of town, she came upon a train of Jewish infants left to die (talk about heartbreaking.) Noa took one of the babies, couldn't contin...
Truly one of the best books of this year. I am such a fan of WWII books and had no idea about the circus during this time. From page one I could not put it down. A must for every historical fiction #TBR list.
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