![]() She could have created flesh-and-blood people with faults and weaknesses-and then claimed that, after all, it was only fiction and her relatives in real life were much nicer. ![]() ![]() Yet she failed to take advantage of the opportunities fiction offers for depth of characterization. Most powerfully and beautifully, the novel conveys the family’s love for Radom. Hunter’s overreliance on clichés is rescued by occasional flares of strong sensory descriptions. To her credit, Hunter smoothly keeps track of this sprawling cast as they move from one temporary hideout to another across five continents, and the narrative rarely flags. Unfortunately, that means her end product emerges as an adventure story about a set of stick figures, each one more beautiful and noble than the next. Hunter’s website,, offers a behind-the-scenes glimpse at the extensive research this project has. We Were the Lucky Ones was born of her quest to uncover her family’s staggering history. ![]() Georgia Hunter presumably loves her family and didn’t want to insult anyone when she set out to write a fictionalized account of how these well-to-do, assimilated Polish Jews survived the Holocaust. When Georgia Hunter was fifteen years old, she learned that she came from a family of Holocaust survivors. ![]()
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