"Day" (Night #3) by Elie Wiesel

109 pages

In this conclusion to Wiesel's Night trilogy, a successful journalist and Holocaust survivor steps off a New York City curb and is hit by an oncoming taxi. Balanced between life or death, the narrator has to confront the issues from his past that he'd been running from. His loss of faith, which began when he witnessed the near-annihilation of his people, takes him to the edge, where he must decide whether to believe in God or not, and whether to keep fighting for his life or not.

Like the other little books in this trilogy, this one makes a big impact. Wiesel uses few words, but he picks good ones and lets them speak for themselves. This story examines how a person tries to move on and live a "normal" life after living through unspeakable horror. It reminds us that the tragedy is not over after the initial evil is subdued; for the survivors, the terror lives on for a long time.