Girl At War
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NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY ",BOOKPAGE,
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ANGELES TIMES ",BOOK PRIZE FINALIST LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILEYS
WOMEN S PRIZE FOR FICTION For readers of ",The Tiger s Wife ",and
",All the Light We Cannot See", comes a powerful debut novel about
a girl s coming of age and how her sense of family, friendship,
love, and belonging is profoundly shaped by war. Zagreb, 1991. Ana
Juri is a carefree ten-year-old, living with her family in a small
apartment in Croatia s capital. But that year, civil war breaks out
across Yugoslavia, splintering Ana s idyllic childhood. Daily life
is altered by food rations and air raid drills, and soccer matches
are replaced by sniper fire. Neighbors grow suspicious of one
another, and Ana s sense of safety starts to fray. When the war
arrives at her doorstep, Ana must find her way in a dangerous
world. New York, 2001. Ana is now a college student in Manhattan.
Though she s tried to move on from her past, she can t escape her
memories of war secrets she keeps even from those closest to her.
Haunted by the events that forever changed her family, Ana returns
to Croatia after a decade away, hoping to make peace with the place
she once called home. As she faces her ghosts, she must come to
terms with her country s difficult history and the events that
interrupted her childhood years before. Moving back and forth
through time, ",Girl at War ",is an honest, generous, brilliantly
written novel that illuminates how history shapes the individual.
Sara Novi fearlessly shows the impact of war on one young girl and
its legacy on all of us. It s a debut by a writer who has stared
into recent history to find a story that continues to resonate
today.