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9781550223200
The story of one 16-year-old girl's attempt to make sense of death, betrayal, and life itself, this moving novel is one survivor's passionate account of a narrow escape from hell on earth. Uschi, the precocious, confused heroine, struggles against fear, guilt, and an often devastating sense of her own uniqueness to come to terms with sexuality, spirituality, war, brutality, familial responsibility, friendship, and trust in a world too devastated to accommodate childhood. With the help of an unlikely cast of charactersa camp commandant, a movie producer, a bombshell, a Russian countess, and an imaginary princeshe finds the strength to make the bravest decision of all: to live.De Saint-Andre, Lucille is the author of 'Bye-Bye, Baden-Baden' with ISBN 9781550223200 and ISBN 1550223208.
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