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The Keys to Fanny
Paperback
ISBN13: 9781494928780
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Mar 5 2014
Pages: 198
Weight: 0.65
Height: 0.45 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
I'm thirteen today, and I wish I could turn time all the way back to my twelfth birthday...before things began to change.
A young girl's dream takes her further than she ever imagined in Sally Wahl Constain's epic debut novel, The Keys to Fanny. An insightful glimpse into a time when women were denied even the most basic education, its strong characters will inspire audiences long after the last page is finished.
When her mother dies, thirteen-year-old Fanny is unceremoniously placed in charge of the household until her father remarries. When he does, however, it is to a woman whose scheming results in Fanny's engagement to her cruel step-cousin.
Devastated at the thought of her upcoming marriage, Fanny's Aunt Freda offers her secret passage to America. Fanny now faces the most important choice of her life: flee the only home she's ever known and risk never seeing her family again or marry a boy she despises.
Forbidden to learn how to read and write in her village, a Jewish shtetl near Kiev, Fanny's dream of earning an education seems to lie in escaping to America.
But as she embarks on a journey of a lifetime, Fanny wonders: Will her dream ever really come true?
Selected as Book Of The Month by the Florida Writers AssociationEnjoyed by many book clubs.
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