Hello, America
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Publisher Description
The year is 1951 and eighteen-year-old Elli and her mother arrive in New York City. Finally they can leave behind bitter Holocaust memories and become real Americans! From office filing all day, to the challenge of night school, to interpreting the intentions of Alex, a handsome and persistent doctor, Elli soon finds learning English is only half as hard as "making it" in this new world.
Against a backdrop of soda shops, skyscrapers, and subways, acclaimed author Livia Bitton-Jackson fuses old-world tradition and modern dreams, in this vivid kaleidoscope of immigrant America.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Those who were riveted by I Have Lived a Thousand Years and My Bridges of Hope, which chronicled Livia Bitton-Jackson's personal story of being imprisoned in Auschwitz at age 13, will cheer the final book of her trilogy, Hello, America. Readers watch Elli and her mother depart Europe for Brooklyn in 1951; the author brings equal insight to the adjustments required to settle into new surroundings, as well as to more universal experiences such as finding a job and falling in love. .
