The author of Modern Girls delivers an atmospheric coming-of-age story set in Prohibition-era New York, tracing one immigrant family's fortunes and a young girl's journey from the schoolyard to the speakeasy.The streets of New York in 1920 are most certainly not paved with gold, as Minnie Soffer learns when she arrives at Ellis Island. Her father, who left Ukraine when Minnie was a toddler, feels like a stranger. She sleeps on a mattress on th...
Jennifer S. H. Brown is professor emerita¿of history at the University of Winnipeg and fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.¿Among her many publications she is the coeditor of A. Irving Hallowell’s Contributions to Ojibwe Studies: Essays, 1934–1972 (Nebraska, 2010), Memories, Myths, and Dreams of an Ojibwe Leader, and other books. ¿
Jennifer S.H. Brown is a Professor of History at the University of Winnipeg. She is coauthor of The Orders of the Dreamed: George Nelson on Cree and Northern Ojibwa Religion and Myth, 1823, and coeditor of The New Peoples: Being and Becoming Metis in North America.
A dazzling debut novel set in New York City's Jewish immigrant community in 1935... How was it that out of all the girls in the office, I was the one to find myself in this situation? This didn't happen to nice Jewish girls. In 1935, Dottie Krasinsky is the epitome of the modern girl. A bookkeeper in Midtown Manhattan, Dottie steals kisses from her steady beau, meets her girlfriends for drinks, and eyes the latest fashions. Yet at heart, she i...
An important collection of original articles, so full of insight that summarizing them seems an impossible task...The research is exciting and engaging." - American Historical Review