Someday We Will Fly
Rachel DeWoskin
Jan 2019 · Penguin Random House Audio · Narrated by Rachel DeWoskin and Jayne Entwistle
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A heart-wrenching coming-of-age story set in Shanghai during World War II, one of the only places Jews without visas could find refuge.
“A provocative exploration of what resilience means when you’re pushed to the edge.”—BCCB
“A beautifully nuanced exploration of culture and people.”—Kirkus Reviews, starred review
Shanghai, 1941.
When her mother vanishes from Warsaw, Lillia Kazka and her family flee Poland and the Nazis for Shanghai, a city also at war. Occupied by the Japanese army, Shanghai is one of the few remaining places in the world where Jewish families without visas can land safely. There with her father and baby sister, Lillia must learn to survive, even though her mother is missing, even though everything feels impossibly unfamiliar to the refugees who have lost entire lives.
With help from a community of strangers and friends, Lillia learns how to keep herself and her family intact, how to speak Chinese, how to scrape together enough food to survive, and how to protect her speechless sister. Struggling to find meaning for herself in a new life she didn’t ask for, and to make sense of the shattered lives around her, Lillia waits—for her mother, for certainty, for the place that might ultimately feel like home.
“A provocative exploration of what resilience means when you’re pushed to the edge.”—BCCB
“A beautifully nuanced exploration of culture and people.”—Kirkus Reviews, starred review
Shanghai, 1941.
When her mother vanishes from Warsaw, Lillia Kazka and her family flee Poland and the Nazis for Shanghai, a city also at war. Occupied by the Japanese army, Shanghai is one of the few remaining places in the world where Jewish families without visas can land safely. There with her father and baby sister, Lillia must learn to survive, even though her mother is missing, even though everything feels impossibly unfamiliar to the refugees who have lost entire lives.
With help from a community of strangers and friends, Lillia learns how to keep herself and her family intact, how to speak Chinese, how to scrape together enough food to survive, and how to protect her speechless sister. Struggling to find meaning for herself in a new life she didn’t ask for, and to make sense of the shattered lives around her, Lillia waits—for her mother, for certainty, for the place that might ultimately feel like home.
A heart-wrenching coming-of-age story set in Shanghai during World War II, one of the only places Jews without visas could find refuge.
“A provocative exploration of what resilience means when you’re pushed to the edge.”—BCCB
“A beautifully nuanced exploration of culture and people.”—Kirkus Rev...
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About the author
Rachel DeWoskin spent her twenties in China as the unlikely star of a nighttime soap opera that inspired her memoir Foreign Babes in Beijing. She is the author of Repeat After Me and Big Girl Small, which received the American Library Association's Alex Award for an adult book with special appeal to teen readers; Rachel's conversations with young readers inspired her to write her first YA novel, Blind. Rachel is on the faculty of the University of Chicago, where she teaches creative writing. She lives in Chicago with her husband, playwright Zayd Dohrn, and their two daughters.
Rachel and her family spent six summers in Shanghai while she researched Someday We Will Fly.
Rachel and her family spent six summers in Shanghai while she researched Someday We Will Fly.
Rachel DeWoskin spent her twenties in China as the unlikely star of a nighttime soap opera that inspired her memoir Foreign Babes in Beijing. She is the author of Repeat After Me and Big Girl Small, which received the American Library Association's Alex Award for an adult book with special appeal...
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