«Previously published as Between Shades of Gray. A knock comes at the door in the dead of the night, and Lina’s life changes in an instant. With her young brother and mother, she is hauled away from her home in Lithuania by the Soviet secret police and thrown into a cattle car en route to Siberia.»
«I could see how easy it would be to fall into loving Bella. It would be exactly like falling: effortless. Not letting myself love her was the opposite of falling -it was pulling myself up a cliff face, hand over hand, the task as grueling as if I had no more than mortal strength.»