A Sparrow in Terezin

Two women separated by nearly a century find their lives intertwined through the story of a Holocaust survivor in Kristy Cambron's dual-timeline novel. In present-day San Francisco, Sera James watches her carefully built world unravel when her fiance faces criminal charges he didn't commit, forcing her to fight for their future against a system that seems determined to condemn him. In 1942, Kaja Makovsky returns to Nazi-occupied Europe as a journalist, risking everything to smuggle her Jewish family to safety amid the horrors of the London Blitz and the continent's darkening fate. Together, their stories form a meditation on faith, courage, and the bonds that survive across generations.

Barrie Kreinik navigates the novel's shifting timelines with a grounded, emotionally precise performance that keeps both narrative threads distinct without ever losing the thematic thread connecting them. Her measured pacing suits Cambron's reflective prose, allowing the weight of the historical material to land without melodrama. At just under ten hours, the runtime moves efficiently, making this an absorbing listen for fans of faith-based historical fiction.