The author wrote of the exodus from Paris in such detail that it felt very close-in fact the Ukrainians came to mind- and, in the 2nd story wrote of Germans occupying the homes of villagers and the relationships that develop. Nemirovsky wrote this as it was happening and provides a candid look at class, at collaborators, at war. Her daughters, escaping as their parents are killed at Auschwitz, found within a suitcase these handwritten notes. đ˝