Liberation is a study of a very young girl learning far to quickly about life in war by having to hide to stay alive as invaders come into the home where she lived and kill her mother and the rest of the people who she cared for and who enveloped her young life. Adriana Nardi must soon free herself from the cabinet below the sink. She must face what is left of her world. And she must go on with the life and fall in love, marry, have a husband and children, family and all the rest of the normalcies that the rest of the world comes to know in the ensuing years. Her memories return to the Elbans and the struggle for freedom, as her life grows and becomes richer and fuller with every passing day. Her reflections will have the last moments of definition through her eyes as she suffers a heart attack on a commuter train.

Definitely a soul searching book that is a must read for everyone interested in the psychological atrocities of war and the effects that they will always carry forward into the rest of the life lived by the persons involved. Joanna Scott writes magically and breathtakingly about all the thoughts that will race a person to peace.