"A beautiful, poetic tale. I can't even properly explain all the ways this story moved me so. But I'm crying as I finish this. Thank you, Kristopher Jansma, for sharing this story - and the hope of the eels - with us."

"What a tremendous book written by Kristopher Jansma. The author writes about how the Dutch suffered at the hands of the Nazis during WWII. The focus of the book is the time called The Winter of Hunger in the Netherlands. Hitler believing the Dutch were kindred spirits was brutal towards them when they offered such tenacious resistance regarding the occupation. Hitler stripped the Dutch of everything. The Dutch encountered famine conditions. In fact, the main character of the book the author's grandmother stated if the war lasted another week the residents of her city would have died of starvation. Everyone needs to read this book especially my fellow Hollanders. You will learn how courageous these citizens were in their stand against Nazism."

"Every time I start to think WWII has become a tired and overdone setting for historical fiction, a book like this comes along to show me how wrong I am.

Our Narrow Hiding Places is WWII era historical fiction about the Dutch Hunger Winter and the way the famine's effects have been carried on to new generations. It describes suffering that's beyond imagination while it tells a hopeful story about ‘the stubbornness to stay alive�. It looks at the causes of intergenerational trauma, asking if there is ‘any person, anywhere walking free...whose (ancestors) have never experienced hunger, pain, betrayal, fear?� If traumas passed forward are sometimes the price paid for being alive? Overall, this is a short book that's both moving and profound.

My thanks to Å·±¦ÓéÀÖ Giveaways and the publisher for an advance copy. The quotes in this review are from an uncorrected proof and may not appear in the final bound book.

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