Corvus Genco
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I read this book during the time this conflict was on going. I was about the same age Zlata was at the time. I am now 41 years old & still carry the impact Zlata's experiences had on me as a pre-teen. -- I am the great-grandchild of immigrants from Sicily searching for a better life away from the civil & European strife of WW1 & between WW2. My great-grandparents were still alive when I was born. -- It speaks to anyone's heart how such conflicts progress; the impact they have on people's lives who are just like you. It starts out regularly w/ everyday life stuff a teen would go through in their daily lives. As it progresses you see how the conflict in Bosnia progresses through Zlata's eyes, mind, & heart. The way a young teen tries to make sense of such violence, deaths of people she knew, destruction of places she loved, the obliteration of the life she knew. You see her grieving process on her way to safety where she and her family could start healing emotionally/psychologicaly.