Someday We Will Fly
$30.33
- Paperback
368 pages
- Release Date
21 January 2020
Summary
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 liv…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780147508911 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0147508916 |
| Author: | Rachel DeWoskin |
| Publisher: | Penguin Putnam Inc |
| Imprint: | Penguin USA |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 368 |
| Release Date: | 21 January 2020 |
| Weight: | 340g |
| Dimensions: | 210mm x 141mm x 24mm |
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Critics Review
★ “DeWoskin explores a rarely depicted topic…A beautifully nuanced exploration of culture and people.” -Kirkus Reviews, starred review★ “An unusual portrait of what war does to families in general and children in particular … affirms the human need for art and beauty in hard times.” -Booklist, starred review“A provocative exploration of what resilience means when you’re pushed to the edge.” -BCCB
About The Author
Rachel DeWoskin
Rachel DeWoskin spent her twenties in China as the unlikely star of a nighttime soap opera that inspired her memoir Foreign Babes in Beijing. She is the author of Repeat After Me and Big Girl Small, which received the American Library Association’s Alex Award for an adult book with special appeal to teen readers; Rachel’s conversations with young readers inspired her to write her first YA novel, Blind. Rachel is on the faculty of the University of Chicago, where she teaches creative writing. She lives in Chicago with her husband, playwright Zayd Dohrn, and their two daughters. Rachel and her family spent six summers in Shanghai while she researched Someday We Will Fly.
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