This book is not as literary as Tiger's Wife by Tea Obreht and it's style is like a college assignment to mimic Hemingway, but it is still a very good read. The politics of the war are ignored and the focus is on one family and their circle of friends. Historical accuracy and analysis is appropriately absent. I had a chance to work with Yugoslavian teenagers as refugees in the US and in Belgrade and Split during and after the war. Girl at War tells the story of their fear, confusion and stunted youth perfectly. And that is something everyone needs to know.