On Bittersweet Place (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780984764815)

On Bittersweet Place is the powerful coming-of-age story of Lena Czernitski, a young Russian Jew whose family flees their homeland in the Ukraine after the October Revolution. The story unfolds in Chicago during the Jazz Age of the 1920 s, where Lena s impoverished family has settled and where she must traverse the early years of adolescence. Lena s new world is large and beautiful and full of promise, but it is also cold and unwelcoming and laden with danger. Ronna Wineberg delivers a moving, universal story of family, self-discovery, young love, and the always relevant experience of the immigrant, the refugee, the outsider struggling to create a new home and a better life in an unfamiliar place.

Author: Ronna Wineberg
ISBN-10: 098476481X
ISBN-13: 9780984764815
Publisher: Relegation Books
Language: English
Published: 09/16/2014
Pages: 265
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.76lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.61d

Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 08/01/2014