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Cover of “Salt to the Sea” by Ruta Sepetys

Salt to the Sea

Ruta Sepetys · 2016

393 pages

Four young refugees cross a frozen East Prussia in the winter of 1945, each hiding a secret and hoping to reach a ship that will carry them west. Their paths merge among the crowds fleeing the advancing Soviet army, bound for a vessel whose fate none of them suspect.

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War Fiction, Nautical Adventure, Survival, Found Family, Quest

Content warnings: sexual violence

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