Bernal author Elaine Elinson will discuss and read from her new novel, “Radiant as the Stars.”
In April 1911, Jews escaping pogroms are fleeing to America, but 20-year-old Anna Reader, is headed in the opposite direction—back to the Ukrainian shtetl from which her family fled six years earlier. She has decided to join her radical cousin Chava in the Jewish Labor Bund on the eve of the Russian Revolution, leaving behind her work in a Chicago sweatshop and the lover who jilted her. But her warm reunion with her cousin is tainted by political intrigue, and Anna soon finds herself in over her head.
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Elaine Elinson is coauthor of the award-winning Wherever There’s a Fight and Development Debacle, which was banned by the Marcos dictatorship. Named a San Francisco Public Library Laureate, her work has been published widely, including in the San Francisco Chronicle, Los Angeles Review of Books, Kirkus, and the Jewish Book Council. Elinson served two decades as the communications director of the ACLU of Northern California and editor of the ACLU News. A Bernal resident, this novel was inspired by her grandmother’s recently recovered diaries.
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