BOOK: Milkweed by Spinelli

[Frederick Muller <fmuller@TELLURIAN.NET>]

Spinelli, Jerry._Milkweed._Knopf, 2003 [0-375-81374-8]
Spinelli has told a story of the horrors of the Holocaust and life in
the Warsaw ghetto through the eyes of a young innocent gypsy
boy.  There is no judgement, just a young boy, not understanding,
but learning to survive.  This 209 page book show the cruelty and
harshness of the time but not in an inappropriate fashion.  The
reader is in the mind of the child who is just living.  The only
criticism I have of the book is the last 10 percent which covers the
narrators life after he leaves the ghetto and grows up in American
and has a grand child.  I did not feel this flash of his later life was
needed.

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Frederick Muller
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