“An unnamed 13-year-old girl is wrenched from the people she assumed were her parents and deposited with a group of unfriendly strangers who, she is told, are her birth family. What follows is a captivating tale about the trials of settling down, fitting in and battling on amid emotional upheaval.[ . . .] Expertly translated by Ann Goldstein, “A Girl Returned” is as heart-warming as it is heart-rending. Both the heroine’s resilience and her confusion are poignant.”
Read the full review in The Economist
