Usually, our postal mail is boring. Bills, ads, solicitations. But today, today there was a package, and what did it contain but two inscribed copies of a new hardcover novel by Kim Ablon Whitney. In the acknowledgements, she thanks Ken for reviewing the manuscript! I am proud as punch, and so pleased to have this soapbox from which to shout it. So today, we interrupt the never-ending saga of What's Going On In My Backyard to mention this great new novel for young adults, The Other Half of Life.
It's based on the true story of the MS St. Louis, which left Germany bound for Cuba, and eventually the U.S., on May 13th, 1939. She carried 937 passengers, most of them Jews escaping Hitler's persecution, and a ship's crew of Nazis. Whitney's novel imagines the lives of two of the passengers, illuminating this heartbreaking but little-known event.
5 comments:
How cool is THAT?!? What a blast! I may have to find that book and read it, it sounds like a good premise.
I want to thank you for the kind words. I thought that is was so cool seeing my name in a book.
How perfectly lovely! I agree with Clytie--what a blast! Hey Sis! I'm next in line to read that book! (grin)
Areyoukiddingme? It's not just a name in a book, oh BIL, it's a resume bullet! (I don't think I've ever typed BIL.) Keep doing what you do so well...because the fact that you *care* shows.
What I'd like to know how does Ken get all the young adults in the stacks?
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