They are being sent to Siberia. Lina's father has been separated from the family and sentenced to death in a prison camp. All is lost.

Lina fights for her life, fearless, vowing that if she survives she will honor her family, and the thousands like hers, by documenting their experience in her art and writing. She risks everything to use her art as messages, hoping they will make their way to her father's prison camp to let him know they are still alive.

It is a long and harrowing journey, and it is only their incredible strength, love, and hope that pull Lina and her family through each day. But will love be enough to keep them alive?

Although the characters are fictional in this book, the horrific conditions and the unforgivable way they were treated were sadly based on real events from NKVD Camps.

This writer does a brilliant job of portraying just how cruel humans can be to one another but also writes beautifully about the love we show and lengths we can go to in order to help loved ones or even complete strangers.

A very sad story where at times I did not want to know what happened next but I felt I owed it to those people to read on and have a better understanding of our world history and the horrors that innocent people were put through.

Review by Laura Hodge

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