Through Bullets and Thunderstorms

<p><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Through Bullets and Thunderstorms </em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>is a historical fiction novel that reads like a dystopian horror book and is inspired by her true story. It follows Maria an 18-year-old Ukrainian Jewish girl living through the Holocaust. </span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Devastated by the mass executions in her Ukrainian home town she runs to the river intending to end her life. What she didn't count on was finding another girl with the exact same plan. </span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>What followed was essentially a comedy of errors: Maria who was incredibly short and couldn't swim jumped into the river yelling at the girl to stop-only to immediately start drowning herself. And so the other girl had to rescue </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Maria</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> and pull her out of the water. And just like that soaked coughing and shivering the two girls made a pact to survive together. </span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>This chance encounter became the foundation of a powerful story about sisterhood resilience and finding hope even in the bleakest of times.</span></p>