REVIEW

Journey to Remember
by Kathy Schlaeger

Amy Bloom's novel Away tells the intimate story of Lillian Leyb who escapes to America when her family, including her husband and young daughter, is destroyed in a Russian pogrom.

So she leaves for New York City and she finds her cousin Frieda who is willing to let her stay as a boarder. Lillian gets a dollar a day for wages minus the rent and charge for breakfast. She moves up the social ladder when she begins work at the Goldfadn Theatre.

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Kathy Schlaeger is the Reviews Editor for Mom Writer’s Literary Magazine. She lives with her husband and three daughters near Cincinnati, Ohio. She writes for Cincinnati Parent, Cincinnati Woman and Senior Life publications.

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