Now he is barely alive, the victim of a political firebombing. Djo has a story: Once he was one of “Titid’s boys,” a vital member of Father Jean-Bertrand Aristide’s election team, fighting to overthrow military dictatorship in Haiti. Tags: Deportation, disappear, Family, Search, Struggle Categories: Germany Germany, Historical Fiction Germany, Historical Fiction, Young Adult (ages 14-18)Įvery Life Makes a Story. Published: 1998, Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR) Exquisitely felt and written, Walk the Dark Streets resonates with the indomitability of the human spirit even as a loving family’s attempts to stay together grow more and more hopeless.īaer’s previous novel, A Frost in the Night, relates earlier episodes in the lives of the family in Walk the Dark Streets. Eva’s boyfriend, Arno, may have a way to save her father from deportation, but it soon becomes clear that their struggles have just begun. A nocturnal search begins for someone who can help release him from the city jail. Then a horrible night of roundups occurs and Eva’s father is taken away. When things get worse, Eva’s mother desperately tries to obtain the proper papers for her family to leave the country. Her father seems gone in a different way he has become ill, fragile, and despondent as the Nazis gain power. Teachers, family, and friends are beginning to disappear. A swastika is emblazoned on the flag atop the City Hall. A girl’s escape from Nazi Germany.The city Eva Bentheim once adored is no longer familiar.