![]() ![]() Next, Eitan says, “it was our turn to walk through the gates.” Darkness descends years pass Eitan sleeps and becomes a pebble. ![]() Sometimes, “whole families” passed through. Eitan speaks of big black birds in his town that, in a frequently invoked metaphor, he compares to “men in black uniforms” who “built a wall and closed the gates.” Nobody who entered “ever came home”-like his Papa. In summer 1943, in Vilnius, Lithuania (identified as such in the backmatter), a Jewish boy named Eitan opens his narrative with an anecdote about flying his yellow kite with Rivka, his best friend and “the bravest girl in the whole world.” He and Rivka wear yellow stars on their clothing townsfolk wear the same. A boy describes love and devastating loss. ![]()
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