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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ë Finalist in the Historical Category for Foreward magazine Book of the Year
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Honorable Mention at the Writers-Editors Florida State Writing Competition for 2007
   

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".
 

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 Freedom in 1983.

  

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