![]() ![]() ![]() Brief, generic vignettes fail to bring the story to life. This short, debut novel-in-verse by a deaf author is thin on characterization and confusing in chronology. When T4 officially ends, Paula returns home, bringing Kurt with her. They wander toward Berlin, but after a brief sojourn with a Jewish family in hiding, they return to the shelter. There she meets Kurt, a strange man who persuades her to leave with him. For her safety, Paula is sent into hiding, first with a woman who teaches her to sign, then to a church shelter. Paula Becker, deaf since infancy, lives in a small German town with her loving family until the Nazi government initiates Action T4, a program whose ultimate goal is to euthanize people with disabilities. ![]()
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