This book is not to be confused with Fifty Shades of Gray.
Sepetys researched her family and what happened during World War II to people in the Baltic States. In 1941 during World War II, fifteen-year-old Lina, her mother, and brother are transported from their Lithuanian home by Soviet guards and sent to the gray cold landscape of Siberia. After watching the film My Way, I can understand the pain, torture, work and dealing with the cold in the Siberia. I am amazed that so many people were able to survive in this climate without adequate clothing.
I knew the Soviets killed people during World War II, but until reading this novel and Unbroken, I did not realize that other countries besides the Germans had concentration and work camps during the war. I guess my head has been buried in the sand, and Sepetys wants us to let others know about what has happened.
I cannot imagine someone coming in and removing my family and me from our home, trying to split us up and making us work while only giving us a few grams of food to survive on. As a mother, what would I do to make sure that my family survives? Would I be like Lina or Andrius's mother to save my own children and my own life?
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