A very good historical fiction novel. I just felt sad throughout since you know how this ends. “When We Flew Away” is a take on Anne Frank’s life before she and her family went into hiding and she started documenting everything that was happening in her diary. The book starts off with Anne celebrating her birthday, but also dealing with the Nazi invasion of the Netherlands. I did love what Hoffman did here, but it’s missing her typical “Hoffmaness”–is that a word– there’s no magical […]