I was blown away by this book. Simple, everyday living by a local parapalegic, living in my own neighborhood. It is told with honesty, dignity and self deprecating humor.
Join us this Holocaust Memorial Day to find out about Anya Rosen and her family, who left their home in Odessa for Shanghai, believing that China would be a safe haven from Hitler’s forces. At first, Anya’s life in the Jewish Quarter of Shanghai is privileged and relatively carefree: she has crushes on boys, fights with her mother, and longs to defy expectations just like her hero, Amelia Earhart.
Then Anya finds a newborn baby abandoned on the street. Amelia Earhart goes missing. And it becomes dangerously clear that no place is safe—not for Jewish families like the Rosens, not for Shanghai’s poor, not for adventurous women pilots.
Based on the author’s family history, this is a rich, tender coming-of-age story about a little-known time in Holocaust history.
Please note that we will be serving Li Mei’s piroshki with "double happiness" chopsticks, and tea.
Co-sponsored by both Temple Beth Am and the Palo Alto JCC
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