Someday we will fly
"Warsaw, Poland. The year is 1940 and Lillia is 15 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,...
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC,
2019.
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| Summary: | "Warsaw, Poland. The year is 1940 and Lillia is 15 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 they were circus performers."-- |
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| Item Description: | Illustrations on endpapers. |
| Physical Description: | 353 pages, 7 unnumbered pages : illustrations, map ; 22 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 354-257). |
| ISBN: | 9780670014965 0670014966 9781984836243 1984836242 |
| Author Notes: | Rachel and her family spent six summers in Shanghai while she researched Someday We Will Fly. |
