Thank you to the author for this book which I won on a FB book group.

It was a very well-researched book and it was not an easy read knowing that it was based on a true story of her great-grandmother's Raisa's life and her journey during World War II traveling by train to many places with first her two daughters (Luba and Sofia) while her husband Abraham was on the front and then joining her parents on another travels. I was so emotional at times knowing that this happened in real life and the traveling atrocities and hunger they had to face and how they lived from place to place.

I especially enjoyed the letters from Raisa and Abraham vice versa throughout the book and how they always kept in touch. The ending is what I expected but Raisa re-married and had a son with him and it ended with them being at Luba's wedding. ( )