Nazi troops are amassing at the Polish border as Alina waits for Tomasz to come home from Warsaw so they can be married.  But as the occupation takes over her village and the people are divided by fear and hate, Alina is forced to enter into dangerous alliances as the only way to save her life.  Two generations later, and thousands of miles away, another Alina – now called Alice – tries to unravel the hidden secrets in her family’s history, woven so closely with her own, secrets born of the devastation that occurs when truth is silenced.

Dr. Linda Burghardt, Scholar-in-Residence, will lead the discussion.