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01799aam a2200301Ia 4500 001 9D3E09D4536711E4A51C2A97DAD10320 003 SILO 005 20240309011342 008 140320s2014 caub 000 1 eng d 020 $a 1631529072 (pbk.) 020 $a 9781631529078 (pbk.) 035 $a (OCoLC)874725917 040 $d SILO 082 4 $a [Fic] 100 1 $a Berger, Sande Boritz 245 14 $a The Sweetness : $b a novel / $c Sande Boritz Berger 260 $a Berkeley, CA : $b She Writes Press, $c 2014 300 $a 307 p. : $b port. ; $c 22 cm 520 $a "Vilna, 1941. When her family is forced from their ghetto by the invading Nazis, Rosha Kanisky, a curious child, asks her grandmother why she is carrying nothing but a jug of lemons and water. 'Something to remind me of the sweetness,' the wise woman tells her. Brooklyn, 1941. Rosha's cousin, Mira Kane, a gifted teen with dreams of escaping to Hollywood to become a designer, finds her plans abruptly thwarted when her father - traumatized by the fate of his Vilna relatives - becomes intent on safeguarding those he loves most from a brutal world. Meanwhile, unbeknownst to her American faimly, Rosha is alive, saved when her father thrusts her into the arms of a Polish Catholic candle maker. Inspired by true events, THE SWEETNESS is a tale of heartbreak and hope at a most tragic time in history." --From the back cover 650 0 $a Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) $z Poland $v Fiction 650 0 $a Jewish girls $v Fiction 650 0 $a Jewish families $v Fiction 655 7 $a Historical fiction. $2 gsafd 941 $a 3 952 $l GBPF771 $d 20240202021755.0 952 $l STPC124 $d 20230418015646.0 952 $l BOPG851 $d 20181006081445.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=9D3E09D4536711E4A51C2A97DAD10320Initiate Another SILO Locator Search