This book was amazing and disturbing all at once. Could not put it down and it was haunting me long after I finished it. ( )

The story of a little girl who endured the Paris roundup of the Jews, The story of Julia Jarmond and American married to a frenchman and living in Paris, a journalist. These two women become inextricably connected through history and time. A beautifully written tradgedy. ( )

I could not put this book down. I loved how generations and strangers come together through time so seamlessly. The way the story works, you ask yourself from time to time, how many people in real life have ever come together as if by fate?
The novel joins several families during a time of war all by loving and connecting with one girl. It will make you want to cry and shout out, with all your might just to have things go right for this poor girl.
Please read this book, and never forget. ( )

Julia Jarmond is an American living in Paris with her French husband, Bernard, and her daughter Zoe. Her boss gives her an assignment: to write an article about the Vel' d'Hiv', the round-up of Jews in Paris by the French police on July 16, 1942, for the 60th anniversary of that date. Julia's story is intertwined with that of one little girl who was captured, along with her parents, on that fateful day.

Though Julia is ostensibly the main character, this is really the little girl's story. She is the character most fully drawn, and it is her story that took up most of my emotional attachment while reading. The modern-day characters seemed flat to me, perhaps because they were all seen through Julia's point of view, and she tended to think of all of her in-laws as looking down on her as "the American." The author had an incessant habit of using sentence fragments, and the story was heart-wrenching though predictable. Sarah's Key is an emotional story about a little-known historical event, but not my favorite Holocaust story. ( )

Loved this book! It was sort of haunting, and suspenseful...I didn't want to put it down. But it was also so sad. It definitely reminds me of Suite Francaise, by Irene Nemirovsky. ( )