The Lost History of Stars: A Novel

"[A] gripping tale about living in war's barbaric shadow, and how moments of decency and heroism and glimpses of the natural world sustain us" (Jess Walter, #1 New York Times-bestselling author of The Financial Lives of the Poets).

In turn-of-the-century South Africa, fourteen-year-old Lettie, her younger brother, and her mother are Dutch Afrikaner settlers who have been taken from their farm by British soldiers and are being held in a concentration camp. It is early in the Boer War, and ...