Here’s a short summary of This Light Between Us:
In the year 1935, war was on the cusp of many shores. A Japanese-American boy named Alex Maki becomes school pen pals with a French-Jewish girl, Charlie Levy. In the darkness the war will bring on both of these hopeless individuals, the letters they write provide a friendship for the ages, ending in bittersweet tragedy and pain.
Here's a short review of the novel:
When I finished this book, I spent minutes staring at the eBook’s page, not moving, not flinching, just feeling an immense feeling in my chest. Gut-felt and painful. I haven’t read too many novels set in the horror-filled period of World War II, but this book really gave me the atmosphere of that world, further proving its darkness by the metaphor as the title. I appreciated how the friendship between the two characters didn’t go further than that, and they stayed as pen pals through the darkest moments of their life. It gave me a “hope in the pain” vibe with both of their indisputable fates in thai novel. I felt in this book, and I felt hard. Overall, I would give this novel a recommend - it was of decent length, and it really made me think a lot about philosophy and the psychology of human loneliness.