All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
The Tides of War This beautifully written book takes you into the lives of two people during World War II. Werner, an intelligent 18-year-old German boy is a curious, mechanically inclined orphan who is enlisted in the National Political Institute of Education at Schulpforta to track resistance members through radio communication. Marie-Laure is a 16-year-old blind, French girl, who grew up surrounded by the intrigues of the Museum of Natural History in Paris, where her father was a locksmith. The museum houses a unique, large diamond called the Sea of Flames, which plays directly and indirectly into the lives of Marie-Laure and Werner when they eventually meet in August, 1944 in occupied Saint-Malo, a walled city by the sea. This is a poignant story about the interconnectivity of people’s lives, their lights, which may turn the tides of someone’s world even with a few brief moments of interaction. The Pulitzer-prize winning prose is rich and eloq...