Radio Sarajevo

What it's like to be a kid during war. Suddenly you're constantly hungry, your biggest wish is a set of batteries for your radio, you wear your skisuit nonstop because there's no electricity and heat, and you go on adventures scavenging for dirty magazines that you can trade for candy with the UN soldiers. There's a lightness in the anecdotes, showing how children can live through hardness without remembering just the pain. But the novel's somber undertone talks of war never ending, and that the true hardships are the demons that remain.

I loved a lot about this.