By bread alone

I started this book to counterbalance reading We wish to inform you tha tomorrow we will be killed with our families, but it turned out that By Bread Alone, despite its gentle title and lovely cover, is a pretty dark book, too. The characters were quirky and the plot was just slightly to the left of expected. There was a small forced quality to the story that made me lower my overall evaluation of it, but while it detracts from the book, it does not ruin the book.