About This Book
She came to the Golden Land and found a new life. Now love and longing drove her back to Europe on the eve of World War I.
They were sweatshop immigrants on New York's swarming Lower East Side, remembering other places, better days. And each one hoped and dreamed of something more...
Sarah Klugerman: She was a child when she left Hungary for America's bright shores. Now she dared to leave her husband and six children to see her dying mother once again, to receive her blessing and share the burden of a secret sorrow. Before the High Holidays, God willing, she would return to her sons and daughters...
Shayna: At thirteen she was suddenly the woman of the house, obliged to honor the mother she loved and endure her unforgiving father. Stealing moments to read her beloved books, she fought desperately for the education that her two bitter aunts, Tillie and Sadie, considered a foolish luxury...
Yakov: Sarah's eldest son was eighteen now, a rebel determined to shed the burdens of tradition. So he found a new religion--the workers' revolution--that would bring him love and loss beyond his youthful dreams...
Grandma Rivka: As a golden-haired village girl she'd known a storybook romance--and true love. Now old and sick, she longed to see Sarah again. But she was blind to the price her dearest daughter would pay, and to the Great War, which threatened them all...
They were sweatshop immigrants on New York's swarming Lower East Side, remembering other places, better days. And each one hoped and dreamed of something more...
Sarah Klugerman: She was a child when she left Hungary for America's bright shores. Now she dared to leave her husband and six children to see her dying mother once again, to receive her blessing and share the burden of a secret sorrow. Before the High Holidays, God willing, she would return to her sons and daughters...
Shayna: At thirteen she was suddenly the woman of the house, obliged to honor the mother she loved and endure her unforgiving father. Stealing moments to read her beloved books, she fought desperately for the education that her two bitter aunts, Tillie and Sadie, considered a foolish luxury...
Yakov: Sarah's eldest son was eighteen now, a rebel determined to shed the burdens of tradition. So he found a new religion--the workers' revolution--that would bring him love and loss beyond his youthful dreams...
Grandma Rivka: As a golden-haired village girl she'd known a storybook romance--and true love. Now old and sick, she longed to see Sarah again. But she was blind to the price her dearest daughter would pay, and to the Great War, which threatened them all...