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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Just got done listening to "Send For Me" by Lauren Fox.
It is about a Jewish family who immigrated from Germany to Wisconsin in 1938.  It was fiction, but the author based it on the actual letters she had found that her great grandmother, who stayed in Germany, wrote to them until the great grandmother died.   
I liked it, but . . .  
What I didn't care for was how the book kept jumping around in time between present day and the 1930's. 
What I did like about it was the narrative about the years leading up to the holocaust.  Things like Jewish and non-Jewish people being childhood playmates and friends in the 1920's, then not associating with each other any more. The slow insidiousness of hatred towards Jewish people.   I had never thought about that before. [/quote]

This seems like it might be up my alley!  Although maybe too dark for me right now — is the ending super downer or are you left with some sense of hope for humanity?[/quote]
I am the person who listened to "Send For Me".  The ending was not super downer, but not super "up" either.  There was just a sense of longing for the family members to be together, throughout the book.  And, in my opinion, also a sense of confusion for the rest of their lives as to why they had been respected members of the community back in Germany for a long time, then they had to leave their home country in order to not be murdered. [/quote]

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