~ Trade Paperback
~ Winner of the Goodreads Choice Award for Young Adult Fiction - 2016, the SCBWI Golden Kite Award for Fiction - 2017, the Audie Award for Young Adult -2017, the Carnegie Medal - 2017, and the California Young Readers Medal for Young Adult - 2018
In Salt to the Sea, Ruta Sepetys crafts four fictionalized but historically accurate voices to convey the real-life tragedy of the Wilhelm Gustloff, a German cruise liner sunk by a Soviet submarine on January 30, 1945 claiming more than nine thousand lives.
This edition of Salt to the Sea includes book club questions and exclusive interviews with Wilhelm Gustloff survivors and experts to further inform about this lesser known tragedy, that was six times deadlier than the sinking of the Titanic.
"Ruta Sepetys acts as champion of the interstitial people so often ignored; whole populations lost in the cracks of history." -- The New York Times