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This area is for any discussion about the May 2024 Historical Fiction book selection, All the Light We Cannot See, before we begin reading it.

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Marie-Laure lives in Paris near the Museum of Natural History, where her father works. When she is twelve, the Nazis occupy Paris and father and daughter flee to the walled citadel of Saint-Malo, where Marie-Laure’s reclusive great uncle lives in a tall house by the sea. With them they carry what might be the museum’s most valuable and dangerous jewel.

In a mining town in Germany, Werner Pfennig, an orphan, grows up with his younger sister, enchanted by a crude radio they find that brings them news and stories from places they have never seen or imagined. Werner becomes an expert at building and fixing these crucial new instruments and is enlisted to use his talent to track down the resistance. Deftly interweaving the lives of Marie-Laure and Werner, Doerr illuminates the ways, against all odds, people try to be good to one another.

My pre-reading thoughts: Will this book wreck my emotions?

Some WWII stories have. We'll see with this one.

I read this book about 18 months ago she loved it, completely!

I also read this book last year. I didn’t write a review because I had no words, it moved me so profoundly.

I don't know whether to put this thought here or in the active reading discussion (only 40-something pages in at the moment), but I will sob if Marie-Laure loses her father. He seems like her biggest cheerleader.

I read this about two months ago. very well done!