In My Hands

Polish teenager Irene Gut endured harrowing depredations during the German occupation of her country, which only served to inspire her to risk her life further to rescue Jews from the death camps. All this she tells to writer Jennifer Armstrong, who tells it to us in the first person. Having boiled down incidents and personalities into simple clichÄs, Armstrong makes the tale an elemental read for narrator Hope Davis, whose pleasant, urgent voice delivers every ounce of the riveting true-life derring-do. Y.R. (c) AudioFile 2000, Portland, Maine