Ronna Wineberg
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On Bittersweet Place is the powerful coming-of-age story of Lena Czernitski, a young Russian Jew whose family flees their homeland in the Ukraine after the October Revolution. The story unfolds in Chicago during the Jazz Age of the 1920's, where Lena's impoverished family has settled and where she must traverse the early years of adolescence. Lena's new world is large and beautiful and full of promise, but it is also cold and unwelcoming and laden...
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Artifacts and Other Stories explores the exhilaration, disappointment, and surprises of love and connection. These fourteen short stories portray relationships -- between lovers, spouses, parents and children, and friends. Desire, longing, memory, marriage, betrayal, adultery, loss, and fresh starts dominate lives. Men and women navigate their feelings and domestic struggles, wrestle with the shifting tides of affection, aging, and illness. Past and...