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Fans of The Nightingale and Lilac Girls will adore The Things We Cannot Say.” —Pam Jenoff, New York Times bestselling author Meanwhile, Kelly's narrator read at a much faster pace and her voice was fresh and full of life. I have to admit that made me look to her parts more than Alina's.
Goodreads Librarians are volunteers who help ensure the accuracy of information about books and authors in the Goodreads' catalog. The Goodreads Libra Goodreads Librarians are volunteers who help ensure the accuracy of information about books and authors in the Goodreads' catalog. The Goodreads Librarians Group is the official group for requesting additions or updates to the catalog, including: Their plans are jeopardized when an informant alerts the German army. Tragically, Dr. Weiss witnesses the execution of his entire family. Tomasz agrees to switch identities with Dr. Weiss and bids them farewell promising to find Alina.Although I enjoyed this book, it feels a little too long for my taste. Also, Grandmother never had two weeks to go on vacation to Poland to get some answers for herself? I find this very hard to believe. Kelly Rimmer knows how to write dual timeline stories. I was hooked on both narrators and their lives. As with all of her books, The Things We Cannot Say is powerful, epic, and so emotional. It’s full of love, loyalty, steadfastness, and hope. It’s about how silence can devastate and takes years or generations from which to heal. Slipping between Nazi-occupied Poland and the frenetic pace of modern life, Kelly Rimmer creates an emotional and finely wrought narrative. The Things We Cannot Say is an unshakable reminder of the devastation when truth is silenced…and how it can take a lifetime to find our voice before we learn to trust it.
The story begins with a wedding and then we jump to the past. A past that involves 6 million lives lost to the Nazi invasion to Poland, where 18% of the population was lost and 90 percent of Polish Jews died. I highly recommend this book to all lovers of historical fiction, domestic dramas and anyone who just loves a good, heartfelt story. It’s a story of war, yes, but it is also a story of love, hope, strength, courage and how two women, in two very different times, come into their own. Alina’s narration describes her separation from Tomasz because he was away at college when the war started. When he returned to Alina, he was in hiding because he was helping to support Saul and Eva Weiss, a young Jewish couple and their infant daughter. They had helped Tomasz escape from his conscription into the German army so Tomasz believed he owed them any help he could give them. The couple is betrayed on the night Alina and Tomasz had arranged to escape from Poland. They were going to transport a canister of film showing the atrocities taking place at Auschwitz in exchange for their freedom. Saul’s daughter and wife were killed, but he was left alive. Tomasz decided to send Saul in his place, using his identification papers, to protect Saul. He told Alina he had to warn his family they were in danger and promised he would catch up with her when he could. As Alina's health declines and her ability to speak ebbs, she utilizes Eddison's adaptive technology on his I-pad to communicate her needs and wishes. Alina implores Alice to travel to Poland on a quest but the quest is unclear.Extremely engaging!!!!!EASY - ADDICTING LISTENING...the type of story that involves readers so personally - the book never needs to end. I especially loved the historical part... but the modern part becomes equally moving the closer we get to the end. This is another dual story timeline — Alina, a Polish teenager living through the early days of the Nazi invasion and subjugation of her country, and Alice, a stay-at-home mom in Florida with a gifted daughter, a severely autistic son, and a distant husband. At the start of the novel, Alice’s Babcia Hanna has a massive stroke and is hospitalized; Babcia isn’t able to communicate well, and she keeps repeating a variation of “Babcia fire Tomasz Poland” to the bafflement of her daughter (who is a workaholic judge) and Alice. Ultimately, it becomes clear that she wants Alice to return to her hometown to solve some sort of mystery — yes, yes, I’m totally summarizing this, but I don’t want to give away too many details. We are spoiler free over here, but I don’t think it’s hard to realize that Alina is Hanna; that’s not the twist — the twist comes to be how did she get to Florida in 1943. Thanks to Netgalley and Harlequin-Graydon House Books for a digital galley in exchange for an honest review.
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