With every song and with every prayer, with every small rebellion, she vowed to push back, to make glass from the ashes.' -Amy Harmon If you were to make a film of this book, what would the tag line be? What does Cassandra Campbell bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you just read the book? Jojo Moyes The Girl You Left Behind and Kristin Hannah The Nightingale. What other book might you compare From Sand and Ash to and why? Somehow, the hope is the only thing resistant to the fear, and it is that hope that makes the next breath possible, the next step, the next tiny act of rebellion, even if that rebellion is simply staying alive.” It settles on chests and seeps through skin, through layers of tissue, muscle, and bone and collects in a soul-sized black hole, sucking the joy out of life, the pleasure, the beauty. I loved this book ♥My favorite quote:“Fear is strange. Hope that with every negative, a positive can be found and with every person full of evil intent, there will be another who will choose to do the right thing. For me, this was an incredibly rich reading experience that gave me hope. She has also replicated the palpable emotions that coincide with tragic times, but the themes of family, love, and resiliency shine through. But such is this magical life – we cannot survive the depths without having at least a flicker of light, and even more so when the world is at war and a beautiful people are being destroyed simply because they exist.Amy Harmon has created incredibly human characters full of complexities. From Sand and Ash is full of contrasts: life/death, hope/defeat, courage/fear, compliance/rebellion, faith/doubt, love/rejection, desire/restraint.

However, Amy Harmon manages to incorporate so much beauty in this very dark time. All of them, gone.”The year is 1943 and World War II Nazi-occupied Italy played its part in the persecution, deportation, and ultimate murder of the Jewish people. And Hitler has destroyed not just branches and roots, but entire family trees, forests. “Our immortality comes through our children and their children. Would you recommend this audiobook to a friend? If so, why?

From sand and ash by amy harmon