A review by lovelyoutliers
The Wind Knows My Name by Isabel Allende
challenging
emotional
hopeful
informative
inspiring
sad
medium-paced
5.0
A beautiful, empathetic story weaving together experiences of family separation and tragedy separated by half a century - a young boy (Samuel) sent on the kinder transport after Kristallnacht on the kindertransport trains and a young girl (Anita) who was separated from her mother at the US-Mexico border.
Sensitively weaving stories of loss, the obstacles people will face to find safe places, and how families can be built in many different ways.
Sensitively weaving stories of loss, the obstacles people will face to find safe places, and how families can be built in many different ways.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Deportation
Moderate: Murder, Sexual violence, Sexual assault, Grief, Pedophilia, Antisemitism, Violence, War, and Trafficking