Why? Perhaps, he mused, because he was Jewish, always the outsider: the refugee boy from Belgium who changed schools so often that he had no friends and hardly talked to anyone.
Home! If she had only gone home at the beginning of the siege, when everyone else was refugeeing! She could have taken Melanie with her in safety with weeks to spare.
The Japanese military has rescued dozens of people from their homes and more rain and flooding are expected-flooding being the most deadly part of storms.