{"product_id":"ekaterinoslav-jane-yolen-9780983325468","title":"Ekaterinoslav: One Family's Passage to America: A Memoir in Verse","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eEkaterinoslav\u003c\/i\u003e, award-winning author Jane Yolen writes about her father's family journey from a small shtetl in the Ukraine in the early part of the twentieth century, through the Ellis Island portal, to a home in New Haven, Connecticut. Her father, only seven at the time, grew up wholly American and never spoke to her of the family's passage. Here, through these brilliant poems, she pieces together a history of her family.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHer poems are a celebration of passage, of ritual lost and then found, of a family who left a land of custom and arrived at a place of opportunity. As she says in the poem \"Round Frame\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eAll those years Ekaterinoslav\u003cbr\u003ewas lost to me, when I could have celebrated\u003cbr\u003eUkrainian winters, learned words of love, \u003cbr\u003efashion, passion, paternity; \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ehow to season the fish with pepper, not sugar;\u003cbr\u003ehow to cut the farfl from flat sheets of dough.\u003cbr\u003eAll I had was New Haven.\u003cp\u003eUntil she comes to understand with the words of the final poem, \"Rebirth\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eI have written these\u003cbr\u003epoems as resurrection.\u003cbr\u003eI have molded these words\u003cbr\u003eto reinvent moment and memory.\u003cbr\u003eI have crafted these short lines\u003cbr\u003efor the ones who come after, \u003cbr\u003emy children's children.\u003cbr\u003eFor them I've created, \u003cbr\u003erecreated really, \u003cbr\u003ea lifetime, \u003cbr\u003ea country, \u003cbr\u003ea shtetl, \u003cbr\u003ea home.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eI can do no more.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJane Yolen\u003c\/b\u003e, often called the Hans Christian Andersen of America, is the author of over three hundred books, including \u003ci\u003eOwl Moon\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Devil's Arithmetic\u003c\/i\u003e, many of them prize-winners, including the Jewish Library Association's top honor.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jane Yolen\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0983325464\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780983325468\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Holy Cow Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/30\/2012\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 72\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.30lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.70h x 5.90w x 0.20d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/01\/2012 pg. 9","brand":"Jane Yolen","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43927010803967,"sku":"9780983325468","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_f1dfefa8-1c3e-4e54-a571-0646accfa757.jpg?v=1681086291","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/ekaterinoslav-jane-yolen-9780983325468","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}