Book Review: All the Light We Cannot See

I've always been a war buff. I think it's because I grew up with a Dad who had volumes on fighter planes in the basement and who let me watch The Great Escape at a young age. WWII is a vein that flows through every countries history. It's a tragic common history. This is a book to add to my list of historic fiction that I've read from that time frame. Usually these books are told from a child's perspective. A la The Book Thief. This one is told from the perspective of a young blind French girl and a young German boy. The book cycles through their two time lines beginning at the time of the invasion of Austria. Marie-Laurie is our voice of innocence. She can't "see" the war but she talks of the emotional aspect of it. Where Werner shows us how a society could get duped into Naziism and how he was trained from a young age. We also see eventually how their lives intersect. I have to say though, one of my favorite things was the way Doerr describes things. Especially how he had Marie-Laurie make sense of the world. Beautifully written. Beautiful escape.