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The black market is Lizas lifeline where she barters family heirlooms and steals whatever she can get her hands on just for enough food to survive Morality after all has become a fluid thing since the Nazi siege has cut off her city from the rest of the world Hope for a quick liberation is obliterated as the Soviet government focuses on sustaining the Red Army and not the city subjecting its people to unimaginable cruelties at the hands of the secret police When Lizas best friend Aka proposes that they go to the same bullying officials rumored to give young women food in exchange for entertainment Liza thinks there surely must be some other way Then Aka disappears and Liza resolves to rescue her no matter the cost entangling herself in an increasingly dangerous web with two former classmates one a policeman the other forced to live underground The Hunger Between Us is an absorbing novel about being trapped with impossible choices and the bonds of love that are tested along dangerous paths
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