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Unterzakhn
A mesmerizing, heartbreaking graphic novel of immigrant life on New York's Lower East Side at the turn...
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A mesmerizing, heartbreaking graphic novel of immigrant life on New York's Lower East Side at the turn of the twentieth century, as seen through the eyes of twin sisters whose lives take radically and tragically different paths.
For six-year-old Esther and Fanya, the teeming streets of New York's Lower East Side circa 1910 are both a fascinating playground and a place where life's lessons are learned quickly and often cruelly. In drawings that capture both the tumult and the telling details of that street life, Unterzakhn (Yiddish for "Underthings") tells the story of these sisters: as wide-eyed little girls absorbing the sights and sounds of a neighborhood of struggling immigrants; as teenagers taking their own tentative steps into the wider world (Esther working for a woman who runs both a burlesque theater and a whorehouse, Fanya for an obstetrician who also performs illegal abortions); and, finally, as adults battling for their own piece of the "golden land," where the difference between just barely surviving and triumphantly succeeding involves, for each of them, painful decisions that will have unavoidably tragic repercussions.
Author: Leela Corman
Publisher: Schocken Books Inc
Published: 04/03/2012
Pages: 208
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.40lbs
Size: 9.20h x 7.40w x 0.80d
ISBN: 9780805242591
Award: L.A. Times Book Prize - Finalist
Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 02/06/2012 pg. 47
Booklist 03/15/2012 pg. 37
Kirkus Reviews 03/15/2012
About the Author
LEELA CORMAN has illustrated books on subjects ranging from urban gardening to the history of the skirt, and her work has also appeared in The New York Times, on WNET/Thirteen, and in The Boston Phoenix, Lilith, Bust, and Tikkun. She studied painting, printmaking, and illustration at Massachusetts College of Art. Leela is also a professional belly dancer. Her radio show, Ecstacy to Frenzy airs weekly on GROWRadio. She lives in Florida.
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