“In my youth I read a lot about WWII and the Holocaust, so I really questioned whether I could read a book that added anything to a long list of Holocaust-survivor books. And after ready Alison Pick's Far to Go I would proffer a tentative yes. Why tentative? Well, I liked the perspective and the cast of characters - a new take on a well-trod road. We see the characters all reacting to the Czech Anschluss differently - collaborators, the factory owner who ignores the inevitable, the uneasy complicity of the governess and the immersion into the material but the mother. It is very memorable, and believable. I also though Pickson captures the emotions and volatility of a small Czech town, and later Prague, very well. But I easily predicted the narrator's link to the story before the halfway point in the book and the book left a little bit of a hollow feeling (perhaps the point?). ”
Lisa K wrote this review Sunday, November 27, 2011.
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