Ashleigh Johnson

This was a pretty prominent scene in my eye for reasons that don't have to do with this specific sentence because it more fully told a story of the women in this story and their interconnectedness through suffering. Hana saying this out loud near the end of the book and close to her death struck me because it was another moment that highlighted the distance between us and them that was well evidenced throughout the book and how powerful it was when people made the choice to see humanity and close that distance. Hana's story gives us historical insight into the plight of yet another generation and category of people who suffered throughout these tumultuous years in history.