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Across so many seas  Cover Image Book Book

Across so many seas / Ruth Behar.

Behar, Ruth, 1956- (Author).

Summary:

"Spanning over five hundred years, a novel telling the stories of four girls from different generations of a Jewish family, many of them forced to leave their country and start a new life"-- Provided by publisher.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780593323403 (hardcover)
  • Physical Description: 258 pages : illustration ; 22 cm
  • Publisher: New York : Nancy Paulsen Books, 2024.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references.
Subject: Jewish girls > Juvenile fiction.
Jews > Juvenile fiction.
Families > Juvenile fiction.
Refugees > Juvenile fiction.
Genre: Historical fiction.
Jewish fiction.

Available copies

  • 1 of 1 copy available at Tsuga Consortium.

Holds

  • 0 current holds with 1 total copy.
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Cookstown Branch J FIC Behar 31681030035729 JFIC Available -

Ruth Behar (ruthbehar.com), the Pura Belpré Award-winning author of Lucky Broken Girl and Letters from Cuba, was born in Havana, Cuba, grew up in New York, and has also lived in Spain and Mexico. Her work also includes poetry, memoir, and the acclaimed travel books An Island Called Home and Traveling Heavy. She was the first Latina to win a MacArthur "Genius" Grant, and other honors include a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship and being named a "Great Immigrant" by the Carnegie Corporation. An anthropology professor at the University of Michigan, she lives in Ann Arbor, Michigan.


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