Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch is the acclaimed author of over sixteen picture books and novels.In 2013 she won the Silver Birch Fiction Award for Making Bombs for Hitler and the Red Cedar Award for Last Airlift: A Vietnamese Orphan's Rescue from War.
She applied the Page 69 Test to her new novel, Don't Tell the Nazis, and reported the following:
At the moment I'm reading Malcolm Gladwell's latest, Talking to Strangers, and am really enjoying it. I just finished reading A Door in the Earth by Amy Waldman. It's a novel about an idealistic American of AfghanVisit Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch's website.heritage who decides to do research in a remote Afghan village that has become famous because of a memoir written by an American doctor who had spent time in the area. Parveen is certain that her presence will do the locals some good, but nothing is as it seems. Her presence sets off deep and unexpected ripples. Masterfully written with a nuanced cast of characters and attention to the contradictory and layered nature of the American presence in Afghanistan, this book is a must-read.
The Page 69 Test: Don't Tell the Nazis.
--Marshal Zeringue
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