Marcia says:
Chris Bohjalian has done it again by taking us into the human responses and emotions from challenging events. In Skeletons at the Feast, we witness the end of WWII in Hitler’s Reich. A German family, a forced labor Scottish POW and an escaped Jew, who of all things is disguised as a Wehrmacht soldier, travel on foot across Germany. Hungry, cold, dirty and unable to understand the madness surrounding them, they are fleeing from the brutal Russian “liberators” into the hands of American and British solders. In spite of all the sad realities this book portrays, I was impressed by the fortitude of these characters and how they found friendship in one another.
