In 1938, eleven-year-old Esther joins her father in tropical, multicultural Cuba, where they toil together to rescue the rest of their Jewish family from persecution in Poland. Includes notes about the author's grandmother, on whom the story is based.
year: 2020
call number/section: 1000, 920
subjects: refugees, fiction, immigrants, jews, cuba, dressmaking, letters, cuba, history, fiction, biographical fiction, epistolary fiction, historical fiction