91. All the Things We Cannot Say By: Kelly Rimmer

Library Book

Synopsis from Goodreads:

In 1942, Europe remains in the relentless grip of war. Just beyond the tents of the Russian refugee camp she calls home, a young woman speaks her wedding vows. It’s a decision that will alter her destiny…and it’s a lie that will remain buried until the next century.

Since she was nine years old, Alina Dziak knew she would marry her best friend, Tomasz. Now fifteen and engaged, Alina is unconcerned by reports of Nazi soldiers at the Polish border, believing her neighbors that they pose no real threat, and dreams instead of the day Tomasz returns from college in Warsaw so they can be married. But little by little, injustice by brutal injustice, the Nazi occupation takes hold, and Alina’s tiny rural village, its families, are divided by fear and hate. Then, as the fabric of their lives is slowly picked apart, Tomasz disappears. Where Alina used to measure time between visits from her beloved, now she measures the spaces between hope and despair, waiting for word from Tomasz and avoiding the attentions of the soldiers who patrol her parents’ farm. But for now, even deafening silence is preferable to grief.

Slipping between Nazi-occupied Poland and the frenetic pace of modern life, Kelly Rimmer creates an emotional and finely wrought narrative that weaves together two women’s stories into a tapestry of perseverance, loyalty, love and honor. The Things We Cannot Say is an unshakable reminder of the devastation when truth is silenced…and how it can take a lifetime to find our voice before we learn to trust it.

Recommend: Yes! This is a book that I got from the library. I know that either a friend from Facebook or one of the gals I watch on YouTube told me about this book.

I started to read it Sunday morning while working on Spark with my hubby. I couldn’t stop reading it and even stayed up until 11 pm. to read the ending. Everyone should read this. It’s one of those heartbreaking books that you are rooting for everyone, while also no one bc of the truth that everyone is going through at that time. It’s a book that will stay with you for a while and will want you to talk to others who have also read it.

It’s at your local library, go get it.