Frieda Mintz, a seventeen-year-old Jewish girl in Boston, spends one impulsive night with a U.S. Army private and finds herself left with an unspeakable disease that causes the government to send her to a makeshift detention center where she is humiliated and violated by the officials, and inspired by the strong women surrounding her.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.