Review: Keeper of Lost Children

Keeper of Lost Children by Sadeqa Johnson
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

This is an amazing story of a part of history that has been kept hidden. It takes place during the 1950's in occupied Germany during the war. It was a very eye-opening revelation of the treatment of the African American soldiers, and the children that they fathered with the German women. The reader is given the story from three different viewpoints. Ethel, an army wife, who works with the orphanages and finds home for the "brown babies", Ozzie who is an African American soldier who fathers one of the babies, and Sopia a young girl who leaves her farm home to go to a racial private school. Each character reveals the heartbreak and hardships that these people experienced.
This is an excellent historical fiction book that I would highly recommend that you read with the book in one hand and a tissue in the other.

Thank you to Netgalley, the publisher and the author for the opportunity to read an advanced copy of this wonderful book.


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