6/30/2023 0 Comments Mademoiselle Gigi by Dennis Ward![]() ![]() Gigi's indomitable spirit will inspire and capture your heart. Sometimes comic, sometimes tragic,"Mademoiselle Gigi" is an emotional roller-coaster that takes the reader on a page-turning journey from pure joy and laughter to despair and tears. Despite living through the grim realities of war, Gigi emerges from girlhood adolescence to become a beautiful young woman with a monumental sense of humor and lightness of being. During the next four years, they will endure isolation, starvation, deportations of family and friends, and the horrors of the gestapo. ![]() Marked as rich Parisian Jews, her family is subject to people's scorn while the French Republic crumbles around them. Along with millions of other refugees, the family takes the decision to flee the advancing Nazis. ![]() Gigi's impeccable world of loving family, friends, and her plans to attend art school is shattered as the German army approaches Paris. Gigi, a fun-loving Jewish girl about to marry a Louisiana Cajun soldier at the end of World War II, reminisces about the war years and her family's struggle to survive them. ![]()
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