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cbabe

(4,812 posts)
Wed Mar 5, 2025, 11:44 AM Mar 5

Sitting on the bench at the Apple Store waiting for my turn for tech help

I turned to my fellow bench sitter and said: let’s have a meaningful conversation. Read any good books lately?

She replied: well, yes I have.

Her book

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/199531787-our-narrow-hiding-places

Our Narrow Hiding Places
Kristopher Jansma
Aug, 2024

For fans of All the Light We Cannot See and The Nightingale: an elderly woman recounts her Dutch family’s survival during the final years of Nazi occupation, shedding new light on old secrets that rippled through subsequent generations.



Our Narrow Hiding Places is a sweeping story of survival and of the terrible cost of war—and a reminder that sometimes the traumas we inherit come along with a resilience we never imagined.

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