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One good thing / Georgia Hunter.

ISBN: 9781984880932 (hardcover)
Physical Description: 417 pages : illustration, map ; 24 cm
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: New York : Pamela Dorman Books/Viking, [2025]
Copyright: &copy;2025

Hunter, Georgia, 1978- (author.).

Summary:

"1941, Emilia Romagna. Lili and Esti have been best friends since meeting at the University of Ferrara; when Esti's son Theo is born, they become as close as sisters. There is a war being fought across borders, and in Italy, Mussolini's Racial Laws have deemed Lili and Esti descendants of an 'inferior' Jewish race, but life somehow goes on-until Germany invades northern Italy, and the friends find themselves in occupied territory. Esti, older and fiercely self-assured, convinces Lili to flee first to a villa in the countryside to help hide a group of young war orphans, then to a convent in Florence, where they pose as nuns and forge false identification papers for the Underground. When disaster strikes at the convent, a critically wounded Esti asks Lili to take a much bigger step: to go on the run with Theo"-- Provided by publisher.