![]() ![]() They were able to get more even under the duress of World War II rations. Adults stand in lines each day to buy bread and other groceries. But families never have enough money and food to support themselves, no matter how small or large. Families are large as Ceaușescu’s regime encourages and rewards mothers for families of five and ten children. Christian Florescu, our protagonist, lives in a police state where citizens report on all the activities and criminal behavior of other citizens in exchange for medicine, cigarettes for illegal bribes, or simple luxuries, such as Coca Cola. I Must Betray You is set in Romania in 1989, at the height of Ceaușescu’s dictatorship. The same holds true for her newest novel. ![]() I absolutely love how Sepetys manages to take a little known (at least for American high school students) historical event and teach about it in a way that doesn’t feel like a history lecture. I Must Betray You is Ruta Sepetys’s newest historical fiction novel marketed for young adults. They know exactly what they’re doing.” – Ruta Sepetys, “I Must Betray You” ![]() “This never knowing, it weakens us,” Bunu would say. ![]()
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