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Publisher
Nancy Paulsen Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
258 pages : 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Spanning over 500 years, Pura Belpré Award winner Ruth Behar's epic novel tells the stories of four girls from different generations of a Jewish family, many of them forced to leave their country and start a new life.
In 1492, during the Spanish Inquisition, Benvenida and her family are banished from Spain for being Jewish, and must flee the country or be killed. They journey by foot and by sea, eventually settling in Istanbul.
Over four centuries...