Bluebird
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4.6 • 5 Ratings
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- $8.99
Publisher Description
Author of Reese's Book Club YA Pick The Light in Hidden Places, Sharon Cameron, delivers an emotionally gripping and utterly immersive thriller, perfect for fans of Ruta Sepetys's Salt to the Sea.
In 1946, Eva leaves behind the rubble of Berlin for the streets of New York City, stepping from the fiery aftermath of one war into another, far colder one, where power is more important than principles, and lies are more plentiful than the truth. Eva holds the key to a deadly secret: Project Bluebird -- a horrific experiment of the concentration camps, capable of tipping the balance of world power. Both the Americans and the Soviets want Bluebird, and it is something that neither should ever be allowed to possess.
But Eva hasn't come to America for secrets or power. She hasn't even come for a new life. She has come to America for one thing: justice. And the Nazi that has escaped its net.
Critically acclaimed author of The Light in Hidden Places Sharon Cameron weaves a taut and affecting thriller ripe with intrigue and romance in this alternately chilling and poignant portrait of the personal betrayals, terrifying injustices, and deadly secrets that seethe beneath the surface in the aftermath of World War II.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
This complex, intrigue-filled novel follows Eva Gerst, a teenage German refugee during the final months of WWII. When they arrive in New York City in August 1946, Eva and her largely nonverbal friend, Brigit, are welcomed, housed, and fed by the American Friends Service Committee. Eva, though, is burdened by a guilty secret: she is the daughter of a celebrated Nazi doctor who led medical experiments on prisoners at the Sachsenhausen concentration camp before purportedly escaping to America. Eva has made a deal to find and surrender her father to the American government, but her personal quest is to kill him. Initially alternating between Eva's point of view and that of another German girl, Inge von Emmerich, in wartime Germany, the narrative builds into a suspenseful thriller with many twists—some surprising, some predictable—and a blossoming romance between Eva and a young Jewish man assigned to help her adjust to life in America and who becomes enmeshed in her mission. Cameron melds historical events into the generally credible personal journey of a young woman confronting the truth of her past. An author's note details the numerous little-known wartime and post-war programs that so firmly ground the story. Main characters are presumed white. Ages 12–up.
