The title is more than merely apt in that it is amazing, it is about a child that survived holocaust due to rescue by her mother's friends who hid her and moved her whenever they were askance about her being noticed, and showered her with love and care in those vital babyhood years - she was born in October '41 - until she was handed over to Jewish organisations that took care of bringing her to Israel to her uncle as per her mother's wishes. But it meanwhile portrays an amazing landscape in which a few women growing up from childhood together stay friends and care for one another even as world explodes around them and it is highly difficult, to say the least, to manage one's very survival.
In the process of telling the story the author also gives the surrounding picture of Poland as it was before occupation - where Jewish people were surviving despite increasing restrictions and "economic warfare" prescribed by politicians, and more practiced in various ways across the country - and during occupation when it got difficult to survive the conditions imposed by invading German army and gestapo, until the Jewish population of Poland was almost completely massacred. The details of horrors perpetrated make it all come alive, and it is impossible to describe the horror one experiences even as one reads it, realising they went through this, and that people perpetrated this.
Lalechka survived and went on to live in Israel where she migrated, alone for much of the time after she had been of necessity handed over to the organisations by her mother's friends so unwillingly, and it took years before she could understand any of her past, her family's travails, and more. The lonely child affected by having to move so much and losing the loving care so early is heartrending, especially when she is finally visited and is angry about why it was so late.
One detail the author brings out quietly, but without special emphasis, is how the girls, the young women are strong despite the odds, while the males in the story are human as well, not the giants of the fairy tales embraced by commercial popular culture but heroes in their own right who care for the families under those very trying years and circumstances.
