For Those Who Dare

Miller writes a fantastic tale about the building of the Berlin Wall. It's very realistic and well worth the read. I found the story captivating.

This is a great piece of historical fiction that focuses on the building of the Berlin Wall and of Kirsten's desperate desire to get to the other side of it to her grandmother. She gets the assistance of Tony after holding up a Help Me sign from her window. These two strangers embark on an unforgettable journey and the author's writing makes you want to go along for it!

And one bad day the borders were closed. Kirstin, who decided to leave her husband for good to go live with her grandmother who raised her and concentrate on finding her daughter, born from a rape and given up for adoption at birth, finds herself trapped in East Berlin, under the watchful eye of the almighty STASI. Helped by an American journalist who happens to live right next to the wall, but in the western part of the city, the woman tries to come up with new escape plans until the last, most spectacular, succeeds, not without unexpected help.
An excellent story about the suffocating life in East Germany, where anyone could have been a STASI informant: a husband, a neighbour, a girlfriend and even a child; a fitting tribute to all those who did all that was possible and impossible to reunite their sky, divided by an inhuman policy.