The Things We Cannot Say

"Since she was nine years old, Alina Dziak knew she would marry her best friend Tomasz. Now fifteen and engaged, Alina is unconcerned by reports of Nazi soldiers at the Polish border, believing her neighbors that they pose no real threat, and dreams instead of the day Tomasz returns from college in Warsaw so they can be married. But little by little, injustice by brutal injustice, the Nazi occupation takes hold, and Alina's tiny rural village--its families--are divided by fear and hate"--Publisher marketing.