Sarah's Key by Tatiana de Rosnay

My other book club is meeting tonight at Italianos to discuss Sarah's Key by Tatiana de Rosnay. I still haven't finished the book because even though it is very well written and I want to know what happens, part of me knows it has a very tragic ending. (so here is a little bit about the book so far)

The book is about a little Jewish girl in France named Sarah. She has a key in her pocket that opens the cupboard in which she has hidden her younger brother from the French police, who are rounding up Jews in Paris. It is July 16, 1942, and Sarah, along with her parents and hundreds more people, are brought to the stadium Velodrome d'Hiver, where they spend several days without food or water before being sent to French camps on their way to Auschwitz. Arriving at the camp Beaune-la-Rolande, Sarah is separated from her parents and manages to escape. Nearby farmers not only protect but eventually adopt her. In alternating chapters, we read of American-born journalist Julia Jarmond, who's working on a magazine story about the "Vel'd'Hiv" roundup on its 60th anniversary. Because the grandparents of Julia's husband moved into the apartment once owned by Sarah's family, we learn what Sarah discovers when she finally returns ten years later with the key and knowledge so traumatic that it changes Julia's life forever.

Now you can probably guess what they find and that's why I am having a hard time finishing this story because I know what Julia finds in the apartment is going to be horrific.

I am really going to try to finish this book before 7:00 tonight. Wish me luck!