A short book about the survival of Polish Jews during WW II. This family hid in various places, one of their hiding places went undiscovered until for over 60 years until family members returned and showed how to gain entrance.

I read this over two days, it was quite compelling. A recently graduated U S Marshall is assigned to protect a judge, who has been receiving death threats. Forty years before the judge‘s pregnant 17 year old daughter was maliciously attacked and left for dead. She eventually succumbs to her injuries, and dies after giving birth. Who is sending the death threats, who killed the daughter and why is what the book is about.

I read the whole book, lots of tragedy, but I don‘t get it. Family secrets given up, and I don‘t see how it solves anything. Not sure why the cradle was refused, just not sure it was worth the read.

Just started this & wondering why a cake is wasted every year for a missing person? Shouldn‘t they eat the cake? Why does the spinster school teacher get to approve the dates? Staring off confused. I finished and I‘m still confused.

Val is the narrator of the book . She has come to Greenland, where her brother died, to learn how to communicate with a girl who had been frozen and successfully thawed and revitalized. Val has a difficult time with language the girl speaks, it is not what she expects it to be, it is far older. The writing is good, the other characters believable. Each character has struggled with death. I felt the cold of Greenland as I read. I enjoyed it

Just started this today & it reminds me of an 80‘s movie with Timothy Hutton & John Lone, Iceman. A girl is found frozen in ice in Greenland. She thaws out. So far it‘s quite good.

Great insights are given as to the who, what, where, when, and why. For years I‘ve wondered about Church curriculum changes, and now I have answers. One of the best parts was the vignettes written by anonymous persons with regard to how this ghost of polygamy continues to influence women , men, and families more than 100 years after the original manifesto.

Reading about polygamy is a lot like reading a true life Handmaid‘s Tale. Not my first book to read about polygamy, probably not my last.

I read this and it gave me pause to think about the roles of women. The discussion of women playing the role of basically being a broodmare, or another farm animal only to cook, clean and bear children and that was the totality of their lives. Saw the movie yesterday gave me even more to think about the whole idea that the men should be forgiven or the women could not go to heaven was appalling these were brave, courageous women.

I could not put it down, and I wanted to. Very little good happened, & I know it was the Great Depression & yes I was depressed. My parents lived through the Great Depression; I went to school with children and grandchildren of the “Okies”.These folks could not catch a break.

This is my first Kristin Hannah book to read and everyone said it was her best. I‘m not sure I‘m ready to try another one.

Lots and lots to think about. I‘m only 1/2 way through it. Hope to finish it today. Pearson as always has done an excellent job, and the comments from women and men show how heartbreaking polygamy was. Makes me grateful I do not have ancestors who participated.