# Where the Angels Lived

by Margaret McMullan (2019)

**Verdict:** Forced on friends — You didn't recommend it. You made sure they read it.

**Who I'd hand it to:** Everyone

_ebook · finished 2025-12-15_

## Fingerprint

Positions between two named poles. Neither pole is the good end.

- Place: far toward "the place is the book"
- Moral weight: far toward "pressing a case"
- Cleverness: far toward "the form does the work"
- Lift: far toward "left me heavier"
- Friction: far toward "reads itself"

_Scored from memory, some time after reading._

## How it read

How much I wanted to keep reading, at each stage.

- Beginning: couldn’t stop
- Middle: couldn’t stop
- End: couldn’t stop
- Afterwards: rose (better in retrospect)

## Review

I love everything about this book.

Tags: Europe, Holocaust, Hungary

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