![]() ![]() Growing up on a modest family farm near the small town of Trzebinia in southern Poland, Alina Dziak always knew in her heart that she would marry Tomasz Slaski, a boy from the town who dreamed of being a doctor. This study guide uses the 2019 Graydon House paperback edition. Alina asks Alice to fly to Poland to settle some complicated family business involving a secret the dying woman has kept for nearly 80 years. Alice receives only minimal help from a husband who is distracted by the demands of his career.Īgainst her better judgment, Alice agrees to help her grandmother, who is in the hospital after a stroke and now approaching death. Alina’s granddaughter, Alice, is a perpetually frazzled American mother struggling to raise a son with special needs and a daughter who is gifted. ![]() Alina is a Polish farm girl who falls in love with a promising young medical student just as Germany invades Poland and begins what would become five years of brutal rule. The novel is told in a split perspective, with chapters alternating between the story of Alina Dziak and the story of Alina’s granddaughter, Alice Michaels. ![]()
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