Join Fern Schumer Chapman as she speaks about her new novel, "Is It Night or Day?", the story of twelve-year-old Edith. She lived a protected life in the tiny German town of Stockstadt am Rhein. When brutal acts of anti-Semitism explode in Hitler's Germany, she traveles thousands of miles over land and sea to a place that seems as foreign as the moon: Chicago. And because her parents were not granted permission to leave Germany, she travels alone.
Inspired by the experiences of Chapman's own mother one of twelve hundred children rescued from the Holocaust by Americans as part of the One Thousand Children project, this dramatic first-person story asks the chilling question that all immigrant children who flee alone must answer: What is left when everything is taken away?
This author event is co-sponsored by the Winnetka Public Library.
Wednesday, March 24, 12:00 p.m.
@ Corner Cooks
@ Corner Cooks
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