by Carol Ascher
Northwestern University Press, 1996
eISBN: 978-0-8101-3293-1 | Paper: 978-1-880684-43-6
Library of Congress Classification PS3551.S32F5 1996
Dewey Decimal Classification 813.54

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Nine-year-old Eva Hoffman is the daughter of Austrian Jewish refugees who have found a precarious safety among a small community of European exiles attached to a psychoanalytic hospital in Topeka, Kansas. It is 1951, and the landmark school desegregation case, Brown v. Topeka Board of Education, is being tried in the local court. As the rising river inundates the town, the Hoffmans open their home to refugees from the flood, and Eva learns the complexities of prejudice—and courage—both within and outside her family.


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