All the Light We Cannot See

By Anthony Doerr

530 pages

Historical Fiction (adult)

Paperback

We got this book last summer for the English 10 book room at my school, but I had never read it before. 

Set (mostly) during WWII, the story juxtaposes the narratives of a blind French civilian girl with a German soldier boy. 

(the first page of the story)

Once I got a feeling for telhe protagonists, I was worried that this was going to turn into an opposites attract romance type story, but it did not - for which I was grateful. 

The book is beautifully written, and sad, and hopeful, and all sorts of complicated things.