<p><b>A tour de force historical mystery from Monica Hesse, the bestselling and award-winning author of <i>Girl in the Blue Coat.</i></b></p><p><b></b></p><p><b>Germany, 1945</b>. The soldiers who liberated the Gross-Rosen concentration camp said the war was over, but nothing feels over to eighteen-year-old Zofia Lederman. Her body has barely begun to heal; her mind feels broken. And her life is completely shattered: Three years ago, she and her younger brother, Abek, were the only members of their family to be sent to the right, away from the gas chambers of Auschwitz-Birkenau. Everyone else&#8212;her parents, her grandmother, radiant Aunt Maja&#8212;they went left.</p><p></p>Zofia's last words to her brother were a promise: <i>Abek to Zofia, A to Z. When I find you again, we will fill our alphabet. </i>Now her journey to fulfill that vow takes her through Poland and Germany, and into a displaced persons camp where everyone she meets is trying to piece together a future from a painful past: Miriam, desperately searching for the twin she was separated from after they survived medical experimentation. Breine, a former heiress, who now longs only for a simple wedding with her new fiancé. And Josef, who guards his past behind a wall of secrets, and is beautiful and strange and magnetic all at once.But the deeper Zofia digs, the more impossible her search seems. How can she find one boy in a sea of the missing? In the rubble of a broken continent, Zofia must delve into a mystery whose answers could break her&#8212;or help her rebuild her world.</p>

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