A stunningly ambitious and beautiful debut novel of a twelve-year-old girl's harrowing experience fleeing Nazi-occupied Germany with her family and best friend, only to discover that the overseas asylum they had been promised is an illusion. Anna Rosen receives a mysterious envelope from Hannah, a great-aunt she has never met but who raised her deceased father. In an attempt to piece together her father's mysterious past, Anna travels to Havana to meet Hannah, who reveals old family ties, recounts her journey aboard the Saint Louis and, for the first time, reveals what happened to Anna's father.
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