“Reading Georgia Hunter’s We Were the Lucky One is like being swung heart first into history. Her engrossing and deeply affecting account of how the Kurc family survive the Holocaust, against every possible odd, will leave you breathless. But the true wonder of the book is how convincingly Hunter inhabits these characters, each modeled after her own family members. This is their story Hunter is telling o beautifully and profoundly, and ours as well. A brave and mesmerizing debut, and a truly tremendous accomplishment.”
—Paula McLain, bestselling author of Circling the Sun and The Paris Wife
