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DeWoskin, R: Someday We Will Fly

By Rachel DeWoskin

DeWoskin, R: Someday We Will Fly Fiction

DeWoskin, R: Someday We Will Fly

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From the author of Blind, a heart-wrenching coming-of-age story set during World War II in Shanghai, one of the only places Jews without visas could find refuge. Warsaw, Poland. The year is 1940 and Lillia is fifteen when her mother, Alenka, disappears and her father flees with Lillia and her younger sister, Naomi, to Shanghai, one of the few places that will accept Jews without visas. There they struggle to make a life; they have no money, there is little work, no decent place to live, a culture that doesn't understand them. And always the worry about Alenka. How will she find them? Is she still alive? Meanwhile Lillia is growing up, trying to care for Naomi, whose development is frighteningly slow, in part from malnourishment. Lillia finds an outlet for her artistic talent by making puppets, remembering the happy days in Warsaw when her family was circus performers. She attends school sporadically, makes friends with Wei, a Chinese boy, and finds work as a performer at a "gentlemen's club" without her father's knowledge. But meanwhile the conflict grows more intense as the Americans declare war and the Japanese force the Americans in Shanghai into camps. More bombing, more death. Can they survive, caught in the crossfire?
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
368
Release Date:
2019-01-22
Publication Date:
2019-01-22
Publisher:
Penguin LLC US
Languages:
Published: English, Original: English
ISBN10:
1984836242
ISBN13:
9781984836243
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Minimum Reading Age:
12
Maximum Reading Age:
15
Weight:
356 g
Height:
141 cm
Width:
208 cm
Thickness:
30 cm
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