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SONIA TURBOWSKIA was nearly ten years old when her pleasant childhood in the village of Brusilov, Ukraine, was shattered. In 1919, following the Russian Revolution and the end of World War I, civil war raged among Bolsheviks, Ukrainian Nationalists, and die-hard Tsarists. The latter two groups saw the Jews of the Ukraine as fair game for plunder and murder.

With her widowed mother, Mirel, and her sister Raizel, Sonia hides in the attic of their home as the first attack on their Jewish neighborhood unfolds on the street below. Thus begins Sonia's harrowing tale of love and loss, despair and, finally, hope.

Mirel's Daughter is a haunting novel that narrows the scope of war to one family, one child. Intimately told, it reveals the destructive power of hate and the enduring power of a mother's love. Kay Gill's depiction of hard-won survival retains its unforgettable immediacy long after the last page has been turned. Through imagination, memory, and research, she redeems compelling and appealing characters from a time as brutal as our own for contemporary readers to love and cherish.

Praise for Mirel's Daughter

In Mirel's Daughter Kay Gill tells the story of a ten-year-old girl's remarkable survival and escape to America during the brutal, random, murderous pogroms that swept Russia at the end of World War I. That the girl never lost hope is a tribute to the human spirit worthy of Anne Frank. That the girl was Kay Gill's mother—"a single drop of rain clinging to a leaf"—adds unforgettable tenderness to an ultimately uplifting story.

—Bob Hill, Metro Columnist for
The Courier-Journal,
author of Double Jeopardy

Mirel's Daughter is a touching and soulful addition to the tradition of Jewish immigrant literature. Dramatically suspenseful and emotionally rich, it reminds us yet again how treasured are the stories of our forebearers, whatever their origins, how fervent, for many, their hopes and dreams.

—Roy Hoffman, author of
Chicken Dreaming Corn

In beautiful, vivid language, Kay Gill tells the haunting story of a young girl who loses her family death by death in the pogrom massacres of Ukrainian Russia. Set historically just after World War I, when the Germans were withdrawing, the Communist revolution beginning and gangs of nationalist and tsarsist badit's rampaging through Jewish villages, Mirel's Daughter chronicles what it was like for the Jews of the Ukraine as they endured the prototype of the ethnic extermination to come. A valuable addition to the great witness literature of the twentieth century, Mirel's Daughter is a testament to the human spirit, for it shows how dehumanization and torture ultimately fail to stamp out the will to love and prevail.

—Julie Brickman, author of
What Birds Can Only Whisper

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