I Must Betray You

"When Ruta Sepetys wrote her latest novel, a fictionalized account of Communist Romania, she probably didn’t know the thriller would feel so timely. Set on the cusp of the country’s 1989 revolution, I Must Betray You bears witness to 17-year-old Cristian Florescu’s forced entanglement with the dictatorial Ceaușescu regime, his struggle to have normal relationships, and his deep-seated isolation and paranoia. After all, when you can’t trust your own family, whom can you trust?"