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No One is Here Except All of Us
No One is Here Except All of Us | Ramona Ausubel
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From the award-winning author of Sons and Daughters of Ease and Plenty, coming Summer 2016. In 1939, the families in a remote Jewish village in Romania feel the war close in on them. Their tribe has moved and escaped for thousands of years- across oceans, deserts, and mountains-but now, it seems, there is nowhere else to go. Danger is imminent in every direction, yet the territory of imagination and belief is limitless. At the suggestion of an eleven-year-old girl and a mysterious stranger who has washed up on the riverbank, the villagers decide to reinvent the world: deny any relationship with the known and start over from scratch. Destiny is unwritten. Time and history are forgotten. Jobs, husbands, a child, are reassigned. And for years, there is boundless hope. But the real world continues to unfold alongside the imagined one, eventually overtaking it, and soon our narrator-the girl, grown into a young mother-must flee her village, move from one world to the next, to find her husband and save her children, and propel them toward a real and hopeful future. A beguiling, imaginative, inspiring story about the bigness of being alive as an individual, as a member of a tribe, and as a participant in history, No One Is Here Except All Of Us explores how we use storytelling to survive and shape our own truths. It marks the arrival of a major new literary talent. From the Hardcover edition.
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Panpan

The inhabitants of a tiny, isolated, Jewish village in #Romania decide to reset and pretend WWII isn‘t happening to protect themselves from the horrors. I thought this was a brilliant premise and occasionally a sentence just sparkles, but otherwise it was just not good. If not for the #ReadingEurope2020 challenge, I would have bailed.

Librarybelle It does sound like a good storyline! 4y
BarbaraBB Premise sounds good indeed, but I won‘t try! 4y
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ErickaS_Flyleafunfurled
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Mehso-so

I liked it, but couldn‘t get past the idea that a whole community would engage in a mass delusion that they were the only people on earth in order to hide from the war.
Also - there were some disturbing scenarios that didn‘t have anything to do with the horrors of war. Reminded me of The Wasp Factory in those parts 😬

Mommamanzi It was a verrrrry different and sad book. 5y
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catiewithac
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Found this beauty at the library book sale! Ausubel is one of my favorite authors and I‘ve read everything but her first novel! So excited to own and read this book 📖🤓

Mommamanzi It was a hard read for me but such a beautiful book. 6y
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mookierose
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Curling up with this one after a long day😌💕#booksteaandblankets

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chavalah
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Pickpick

Holocaust fiction that worked for me. The magical realism leant itself to the tragedy and absurdity of genocide and persecution. In the early 1940s, a Jewish Romanian village hears it's first war planes, a survivor (the stranger) washes upon their shores, and they decide to start time over again. Some of their new society mirrors what happens when reality ultimately catches up, and the narrator/storyteller becomes the stranger. #JewLit

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BooksForYears
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#PhotoADayNov16 Day 16 - Child Protagonist

NO ONE features a child who helps make a new society for her fellow Jewish, Romanian villagers during WW2. ELEGANCE alternates between the child Paloma's diary entries and other reflections, and the narration of her apartment building's concierge Renée. HOUSEKEEPING focuses on two sisters, Ruthie and Lucille, and their growth from children to young adults in Fingerbone, Idaho.

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Reviewsbylola I loved The Elegance of the Hedgehog so much. Great choice! 8y
Litlady I agree @Reviewsbylola! Elegance is one of my top five favorite reads. 😊 I love anything Europa publishes and should add more to my TBR. Excellent review @BooksForYears‼️ 📚👍🤘 8y
RealLifeReading The only one I've read is Elegance and what a book! 8y
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RealLifeReading @Litlady yes every time I spot a Europa Editions in the library I just grab it despite not knowing anything about the book sometimes! The last I read was 8y
Litlady @RealLifeReading I know, right? I'm curious about Bilgewater so may bump that one up a little higher in my stack. 😀 I'll def look into Marriage Material as well! 📚👍 8y
Mommamanzi No One left me feeling so down. I still look at it and get sad. 8y
EvieBee Have this on my shelf but you've made me pull it off! Great for JewishHistory Month. 8y
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