I've been struggling for almost 2 weeks to finish this. It's a super interesting story, but it's sooo hard to read. It's a story of a zookeeper and his family, but also interspersed with all of of these other general facts about Warsaw at the time and it's just so choppy and hard to read. I would have rather a historical fiction novel written about the family, or just finding a better way to tie everything together. It seems 1 in 3 chapters deal with the family and I'm having such a hard time staying interested. That said, this feels super bratty to complain about a book about the Holocaust...but other people have done it better, so I just give up.