It seems some kind of wrong to review this as if it were just a random novel written on a laptop in a coffee shop. But I gave it four stars anyway. I understand why everyone should read it. The author wrote from the heart while under the worst kind of duress. Honest and heartbreaking, it really is a remarkable accomplishment. But at the same time, if I have to criticize it for anything, it would be that it is a little repetitive: she falls in love with Peter, the teenage girl author doesn't get along with her mother, the living conditions in hiding are horrible, etc.

(I read this for Banned Books Week, and it is absolutely outrageous that some places have banned this particular book. Censorship is unAmerican!)

You should read it if you haven't and honor her memory. Then go read some other Holocaust-centric works like Night by Elie Wiesel or Survival in Auschwitz by Primo Levi and never let something like this happen again.