What I Left for You

How do I even start? I don't know what to say. Any words I have seem stark and in no way able to express how this book made me feel. I wanted to write a review as soon as I finished it, so I didn't miss a thing, and yet, I feel as if I must wait to process it all--to try to be able to do this book s......more

Where do I start?! Oh my heart this book ripped it out and tore it in pieces 😭😭 so so sad what humanity do to each other. I never remember learning this in school. Schools have a obligation to dig deeper in history and show this. This book featured the Lemkos that lived in Poland, a very small secti......more

I have read several books by Liz Tolsma but none affected me more than What I Left for You (Echoes of the Past, #3). It centered around the atrocities that were inflicted upon the Lemko Rusyn people during and after World War II. The people who called themselves Lemko Rusyn had a distinct identity o......more

What an incredible read. What I Would Tell You is a dual timeliness novel set in Poland in WWII and in America and Poland in the present day. It tells the story of the Lemko Rusyn people, an ethnic group who I had not heard of and details their plight in the second world war. The book is beautifully......more

Where to begin? I took a week to digest this thinking I could better put my feelings into words but it still escapes me. This is one of the most poignant, powerful dual timelines I have read that weaves the past and present seamlessly together and depicts the atrocities of ethnic cleansing and the......more