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Summary Of Ruta Sepety's Between Shades Of Gray
In Ruta Sepety’s Between Shades of Gray, Lina Vilkas a fifteen-year-old Lithuanian perseveres through Stalin’s cruel reign. Initially, Lina’s family is broken up and forced out of their home under the biased rule of Joseph Stalin. While at a labor camp, Lina finds out her father has died and she also falls in love with a boy named Andrius. Later Lina and her family move to a camp in Tromimousk, North Pole, there her mother dies. A doctor helps Lina. The year is now 1995 and a man finds letters of Lina’s survival and her marriage to Andrius. In the long run Lina shares her survival with the world.

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