"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
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