It’s the Jazz age in New York, as portrayed in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, the age of the super wealthy, who are bored and languishing in their waterfront mansions. It’s also the age of rum running, smuggling, bootlegging, gangsters, and robbery. Sixteen-year-old Henrietta “Henny” Fine survives in this world as a street urchin,… Continue reading The Adventures of Henrietta Fine
Tag: Young Adult
Yana
It is Yana Primuz herself, known to be “so good with words,” who tells us of her forced removal as a teenager during WWII from Belgrade in Yugoslavia to a labor camp, Zella-Mehlis (historical, not a fiction), just south of Belsen in Germany. For years, she suffers from rape, from cold and hunger, is forced… Continue reading Yana