Little Carp by Marzena Sowa
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
To children, life is normal, because that is all they have ever known.
And for Marzi, in the 1980s communist Poland, all the things that go on around her are normal. Be it waiting in line for products, such a toilet paper or meat, so having no place to play in Winter, and having to do so in the halls of her apartment block.
Though her parents know what life was like “before”, this is the only life she has ever known, and so this memoir, written after Marzi is a grown woman, is told from the sever-year-olds point of view.
Wonderful slice of life, when life was hard.
I look forward to reading the rest of the stories in this series.
Thanks to Netgalley for making this book available for an honest review