Description:
1. This fictional journal draws a powerful connection between the experiences of Jewish refugees fleeing the Nazis and refugees today.
2. The journal is a realistic but accessible portrayal of New York City and the Jewish immigrant experience in the 1940s, including many phases of immigrant life such as housing, neighbors, employment, fellow workers, and learning English.
3. Includes a translators introduction that provides additional information and context on the authors life and issues of immigration and the Holocaust.
Review Quotes:
"This novel invites the reader inside the mind of a Polish Jewish woman who has recently arrived in New York just after WWII began in Europe. She grapples with the twin challenges of being a refugee--agonizing over the fate of loved ones left behind and struggling to adapt to a strange new social, cultural, and economic environment, uncertain of her future."--Jeffrey Shandler, author of Anne Frank Unbound