Parade Best Books of Summer pick * Real Simple pick * She Reads Best WWII Fiction of Summer
2021 pick The New York Times bestselling author of the heart-stopping tale of survival and
heroism (People) The Book of Lost Names returns with an evocative coming-of-age World War II
story about a young woman who uses her knowledge of the wilderness to help Jewish refugees
escape the Nazis-until a secret from her past threatens everything. After being stolen from her
wealthy German parents and raised in the unforgiving wilderness of eastern Europe a young
woman finds herself alone in 1941 after her kidnapper dies. Her solitary existence is
interrupted however when she happens upon a group of Jews fleeing the Nazi terror. Stunned to
learn what's happening in the outside world she vows to teach the group all she can about
surviving in the forest-and in turn they teach her some surprising lessons about opening her
heart after years of isolation. But when she is betrayed and escapes into a German-occupied
village her past and present come together in a shocking collision that could change
everything. Inspired by incredible true stories of survival against staggering odds and
suffused with the journey-from-the-wilderness elements that made Where the Crawdads Sing a
worldwide phenomenon The Forest of Vanishing Stars is a heart-wrenching and suspenseful novel
from the #1 internationally bestselling author whose writing has been hailed as sweeping and
magnificent (Fiona Davis New York Times bestselling author) immersive and evocative
(Publishers Weekly) and gripping (Tampa Bay Times).
