In a word...wow

I consider myself fairly well read and fairly knowledgable about the world and it's past. Yet time and time again I found myself shocked and awed with new information. Or perhaps it was more that the information was being given in a more personable manner. Not simply facts and numbers but a story of a girl who never gave up and persevered through a lifetime of hardships and fighting. For herself, her friends, and her own family.

The book was easy to read despite the content yet I found that fact didn't detract in anyway from the seriousness of the issues it addressed. Parts of our past that would no doubt prefer to be forgotten and yet should never be.

I especially love the ending. Not so much because it is happy. But more so because it is real. She is writing this book, her book. And therefor it only makes sense for it to end when she does. Or at the very least when she last adds to it.

I had been meaning to read this book for a long while. And I'm sad that I didn't finish it sooner.