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Paper Children
Book Excerpt, Chapter One
October, 1920
Gustav loved me more than I loved him when we became engaged. My
family thought it was the right thing to do; after all, I was twenty
with few suitors. My friend, Yula, a gifted violinist whom I met
through our piano teacher, Madame Selinski, introduced me to him.
Yula, a few years older than me, was engaged to a man of
twenty-nine. Her fiancé, Solomon, from a privileged family like
ours, had ten people sewing for him--fine silk, wool, gabardine
suits, all in his own shop. He introduced me to Gustav, a friend of
his, and we began to keep company. Gustav said he fell in love with
me because of my pale eyes, the color of lilacs.
The engagement party held in our home made the society pages. In a
gown of blueberry taffeta and sapphire earrings, a present from my
father, Gustav and his family showered me with gifts--a silver
evening bag for the opera, a ruby ring, Belgium lace. For the first
six months Gustav came on Sundays with his family.
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Finalist in the Historical Category for Foreward magazine Book of
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Honorable Mention at the Writers-Editors Florida State Writing
Competition for 2007
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ISBN:
978-1-58776-864-4
(Paperback)
Pub. Date: July 2007
Pages: 288
Subject: Historical/Fiction
Price: $16.95
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SYNOPSIS
Driven by cataclysmic world events, the story encompasses the lives
of three generations of women.
In Book One
Paulina, the privileged daughter of aristocratic parents,
reluctantly follows her driven businessman husband to America in
1929. From a vantage point in New York she endures a difficult
marriage and slowly becomes aware of
the destruction of her large extended family in Poland as the Nazis
tighten their grip on Europe.
Book Two begins in 1940 following
Paulina's daughter, Sarah, as she pursues a career in photography.
Sent on assignment to the Displaced Persons
camps in Europe, Sarah is shaken loose from her faith and pursues a hedonsitic path.
The third book deals with Mimi, Sarah's daughter. A solitary
young woman, she becomes curious about the family's past. She
explores the Holocaust and searches for her roots. In a
confrontational scene Paulina hands over her family's pre-war
correspondence that she calls her "Paper Children".
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Marcia Fine's novel, PAPER
CHILDREN--An Immigrant's Legacy, is a finalist for the
Eric Hoffer Award for Fiction. The award is given in honor
of Eric Hoffer, an American social writer and philosopher
who authored ten books. He won the Presidential Medal of
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