Suite Française

Just finished Suite Française, a novel by Irène Némirovsky. I really liked it. It was mostly about how some upper-middle-class French characters responded to Germany's invasion and occupation of France early in WWII. Excellent writing, great character development, really good stories. Sadly, the first appendix comprises a series of increasingly desperate letters between the author, her husband, and various friends, beginning around the time she was deported from France and murdered at Auschwitz in 1942. (I find that kind of thing tough to read, but I also firmly believe that it needs to be read, and remembered). Her husband followed not long after her, but they never saw each other again after her deportation. Fortunately, their two daughters were hidden from the Germans and so survived the war.