“The more I lied, the closer I came to fitting in. Sometimes I even believed myself.”

“The first third of this gripping debut novel depicts the start of the Yugoslavian civil war through the eyes of Ana Juric, a ten-year-old girl residing with her family in Croatia’s capital . . . Through Ana’s journey, Novic, in tender and eloquent prose, explores the challenge of how to live even after one has survived”. – Oprah magazine.