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Loading... Letters from Rifka (1992)by Karen Hesse
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. I read this last weekend and really enjoyed it. I'll keep it for our family library as I'm sure some of the kids will want to read it too. ( ) I'm not a fan of epistolary fiction, but this cross between diary and correspondence isn't bad. Hesse does a good job of capturing Rifka's age (12-13) and the contradictions of childishness and impending adulthood. She also does well showing the challenge of adjusting to a culture different from that one has grown up in and giving a little of the history of immigration to the US from Russia and eastern Europe during the early 20th century. no reviews | add a review
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In letters to her cousin, a young Jewish girl chronicles her family's flight from Russia in 1919 and her own experiences when she must be left in Belgium for a while when the others emigrate to America. No library descriptions found. |
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