Memories from Cherry Harvest

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Amy Wachspress

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English

Soft Skull Press
19 June 2012

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Three generations of women struggle with oppression in this prize-winning historical saga from ""a natural born storyteller"" (Julia Alvarez).

When I remember Russia, I ache with longing for the village of my birth, where the beloved grandparents magically produced candy in a handshake and told stories of long ago when God spoke to humans and enchantments filled the world . . .

Two Jewish sisters, born in Russia shortly before the Communist Revolution, are forced to flee the pogroms and persecution and travel with their parents to British-occupied Palestine. The girls' parents befriend a widower with two children and join forces, creating a blended family. When the girls are teenagers, World War II tears the family apart, sending the girls separately to France and America. Their lives unfold in tandem- babies are born, friendships forged, and cherry pies baked-despite the brutal backdrop of the Holocaust. As the family grows into the next generation, one of the daughters, an artist drawn to a bohemian lifestyle, surrounds herself with a multicultural circle of friends the likes of which her ancestors could not have imagined. Subsequently, the artist's turns her passion to providing aid to Salvadoran refugees fleeing the death squads in their homeland, just as her own grandmother once fled the pogroms of Russia. As she follows her vocation of reversing the damage that torturers inflict on their victims, she must also overcome a past-life trauma that haunts her very core.

A winner of the Fabri Literary Prize, Memories from Cherry Harvest spans seventy years and five continents, explores the physics of memory, and shows how the tenacity of good can ultimately withstand and overcome the memory of tragedy.

""Like Julia Alvarez's In the Time of the Butterflies and Doris Lessing's Martha Quest novels, this story about fighting the injustices of the 20th century will engage readers of politically charged fiction."" -Library Journal

By: Amy Wachspress
Imprint: Soft Skull Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 228mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 30mm
Weight: 468g
ISBN: 9781593764401
ISBN 10: 1593764405
Pages: 400
Publication Date: 19 June 2012
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Amy Wachspress has an M.A. in English Language and Literature and has raised over $100 million in funds as a grant writer for projects in more than twenty-five states. She is the author of the award-winning children's fantasy adventure The Call to Shakabaz. She and her husband raised their three children on forty acres of remote forest in rural northern California.

Reviews for Memories from Cherry Harvest

<br> Amy is one of the hidden treasures in the world of writing. She is a natural born storyteller with a burning belief in how stories can transform us and make for a better world. --Julia Alvarez, author of In the Time of The Butterflies