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One Good Thing
Georgia Hunter
Penguin Group | Viking Penguin | Pamela Dorman Books
Publication Date: March 4th, 2025
432 Pages
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Genres: Historical Fiction | Religion & Spirituality
This story takes place in Italy during World War II and it is heart-wrenching and beautiful. It’s about two Jewish best friends, Lili and Esti, just trying to get through the war alive. Esti has a baby son named Theo and he is the one good thing during this terrible time they’re going through.
This was such an emotional read that was so heartbreaking. It made me feel thankful for the time I live in and for being Canadian. I am truly one of the lucky ones (that’s a nod to Hunter’s first book) What these innocents went through simply because they were Jewish was horrific, to say the least. Imagine your own countrymen being after you as if it wasn’t bad enough to be invaded by the Germans. Lili’s strength and love for Theo and his mother is what got them through this ordeal and helped her to carry on. I loved all the side characters they met along the way and Hunter’s descriptions of the roads that they travelled and the places they stopped were perfection, they really put me into the story and gave me chills.
The ending of this one wasn’t as satisfying as the rest of the book or as I would have liked it was a little too picture-perfect for me but I’m hoping that there’s another book in this series about these characters in the future, I would like to know what happens to them now that the war is over.
Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for the Advance Readers Copy.
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