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Paper Children: An Immigrant's Legacy
by
Marcia Fine (Goodreads Author)
1920s Poland 1940s New York 1960s Miami
Driven by cataclysmic events, Paper Children encompasses three generations of women, their passion for life and the secret histoty of pain that follows them.
Paulina, a privileged young woman who is part of Warsaw society, finds herself faced with the dilemma of family or marital loyalty. From a distance she finds herself torn as the
Paperback, 288 pages
Published
March 31st 2007
by Hudson House Publishing
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This is the story of three generations of women. It is a story of discovery and keeping of memories. Marcia Fine is an author whose works are full of passion for history. This story is loosely based on her grandmother. Imagine you grow up in an upper class section of Poland. It is right before Hitler marches in. You grew up in a life of privilege, you get married and you are suddenly moved to a new country with no servants. Paulina had to learn to cook, clean and take care of her childr...more
The characters in this novel will really force the reader to pay attention and easily endear themselves. The reader will follow three generations of daughters through hard times. The plot is very interesting, the characters face very hard moral decisions. The reader will enjoy the detailed scenes and the varied plot lines, it would be hard to get bored with this novel. Sarah acts as the go-between in the novel. She connects the past and the present and makes the plot seem like a reality to ...more
Story of three generations, starting with a Jewish woman in Poland in the early 20th century. The story takes us through her early life, as a daughter in a well-off family in Warsaw, through the beginning of the persecution of the Jews and her marriage and relocation to America before WW II. Most of her family, however, stays in Poland and ends up in the Warsaw ghetto and the concentration camps. The subsequent sections are about the woman's daughter, born in Poland and taken to NY as a child, a...more
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Award winning author Marcia Fine grew up in South Florida in the 1960s, the daughter of Bohemian parents. A former English teacher, entrepreneur and speaker she has just released her newest book in the Jean Rubin Trilogy, "Stressed in Scottsdale".
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