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rorifer  ·  4370 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: What is the saddest book you've read?

"Rachel and Her Children" by Jonathan Kozol. It's a nonfiction book based on the interviews of homeless families that were housed in the Martinique Hotel in New York City. I've only been able to get through it once.

Elie Weisel's "Night" sure packs a wallop, too. It's a really heartbreaking memoir of the author's experience in the Holocaust and it's only 100 pages so you can get the full effects all at once which I think makes it even more powerful.