It's been a while since I read a good historical fiction set during the 1940's when WWII was raging Europe. This one is set in the Sovjet Union though and follows a girl, her mother and brother being deported from Lithuana to Siberia. It reads fast, but it's emotional. You get to be confused, enraged, engrossed, starving with anyone of the characters, while also remembering their past. Before I was halfway through I was already crying, at the end I was dow right sobbing.