All the Light We Cannot See

Marie-Laure lives near Paris in a neighborhood close to the Museum of Natural History. Her father works there. When she is twelve, the Nazis occupy Paris and her family flees to Saint-Malo, where Marie-Laure’s reclusive great-uncle resides in a tall house by the sea. They carry what might be the museum’s most valuable and dangerous jewel with them. In Germany, Werner Pfennig, an orphan, grows up with his younger sister. He is enchanted by a crude radio that brings them news and stories from places they have never seen or imagined. Werner becomes an expert at building and fixing these crucial new instruments and is enlisted to use his talent to track down the resistance. Doerr cleverly intertwines the lives of Marie-Laure and Werner, illuminating how people try to be good against all odds.