We Were the Lucky Ones (Hunter) - Book Reviews

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The story that so grippingly comes across in the pages of We Were the Lucky Ones isn't strictly fiction—the characters and events that inhabit this Holocaust survival story are based on her family's own history.
Newsweek


Turning history into fiction can be tricky, especially when using real names and details. Hunter finesses the challenge. Her novel brings the Kurcs to life in heart-pounding detail, from passionate young love and beloved traditions to narrow escapes, heartbreaking choices, starvation, imprisonment and torture. We come to care deeply about the fate of each of these resourceful, determined characters.
Jewish Voice


[Georgia Hunter is] just as courageous as the characters her writing will never let us forget.
Harper’s Bazaar


Love in the face of global adversity? It couldn't be more timely (Best Books to Read in 2017).
Glamour


[A] gripping and moving story (15 New Authors You’re Going To Be Obsessed With This Year).
Bustle


[A] remarkable history…of a Polish Jewish family during the Holocaust.… Hunter sidesteps hollow sentimentality and nihilism, revealing instead the beautiful complexity and ambiguity of life in this extraordinarily moving tale.
Publishers Weekly


First-time novelist Hunter got the idea for this book in conversations with her grandmother .… Despite the wide-ranging encounters, we learn nothing new about the Holocaustt.… [N]onetheless [an] engrossing read. —Edward Cone, New York
Library Journal


[C]haracters remain flat and unknowable, while the novel itself is predictablet.… Too beholden to sentimentality and cliché, this novel fails to establish a uniquely realized perspective.
Kirkus Reviews