WANDERING STAR

I treated the last two days of Spring Break like a vacation. Does this mean that I've now experienced that awful sounding thing called the staycation?

Wandering Star by J.M.G. Le Clezio - It's about a girl named Esther, called Helene in 1943 in southern France. The author J.M.G. Le Clezio is male, but he writes of a girl's thoughts and memories so well that I was transported into her world and life. The book spans 40 years, and includes an interlude story about an arab girl, Nejma who is also displaced from her home. The people and events in this novel will stay with me for awhile.
For me the book was ultimately about what it means to be a refugee. Someone whose choice is either to die or to leave their home and life as they know it forever. It's a beautifully written and beautifully descriptive tale of faraway times and places. To think that around today's world, bullies are still displacing people is unthinkable. To think that we let it happen at the same time we send our children to fight in wars that are ultimately about economics is even more unthinkable.