I very much enjoyed this book, it was my book club choice for this month and I'm very happy about that. I have been enjoying many of the WWII era books. I was born at the very end of the war while my father was still in the South Pacific. and we didn't discuss it much for that reason.
The story actually begins in 2005 after Eva is working in a Florida library and sees a book she had encoded with real names of children.It skips back and for between 2005 when she flies to Paris and the details of her life as a forger for the French Resistance.
Eva Traube's parents seem to have been deniers of their danger in Paris, Her father, a Polish Jew had some idea of danger, as he had made a plan with an employer to provide escape documents for Eva.When they come for him at night Eva goes to that man who won't forge papers after the fact. He does give her some art supplies to make her own documents and tells her where Jews are fleeing in a free part of France.
In that small town in Free France, which eventually falls, Eva had a love affair with another resistance worker, Remy. She mourns his death her whole life and the ending had a lovely surprise.
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