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Maynard does a good job of giving the reader a clear sense of what's going on, without doing information dumps and while still maintaining her perspective a child. She portrays the various characters in the narrative very well. There are a lot of strong, resourceful people in the story and a few scoundrels, but nobody that's rotten to the core or 100% noble and heroic. The Americans' relationships with the Filipino locals were touching; they could never have survived so long in hiding without extensive help from the local population.
At regular intervals throughout the book, Maynard includes passages from the diary her mother kept while they were in hiding. From what I read, I think that diary ought to be published. Mary's mother was an extremely gifted writer who was not only very observant, but turned out poetic, beautiful phrasing. I'd love to read the whole thing.
I hadn't known very much about the Pacific Theater of World War II, never mind daily life in Japanese-occupied countries, and I learned a lot from this book. It made me want to know more.