Ann S. Epstein will read from her novel, Tazia and Gemma, at the Ann Arbor Jewish Community Center on December 4 at 7:00 PM. The reading will include a short documentary on the 1911 Triangle Waist Company fire, which opens the book.
Her short story, “Orphan Camp” will be published by Summerset Review online on December 15, 2018. “Orphan Camp” examines how the resilience that allowed Jewish children to survive during WWII made them resistant to adoption afterwards. Although set seventy years ago, the story speaks to today’s many war orphans. Also, her story, “It Ends With Cake,” about the death café phenomenon, was accepted for publication in the Winter 2019 issue of CULTURECULT MAGAZINE.
See Ann S. Epstein’s latest wide-ranging “Learn History Through Fiction” posts about the eras and places in On The Shore, Tazia and Gemma, and her other historical fiction. Read about how a black child’s long bus ride led to the Supreme Court’s 1954 Brown v. Board of Education ruling; the missile launch that eventually sent the first astronauts into space; the novel, tribal, and euphonious origin of the name “Topeka;” the 1918 U.S. Supreme Court ruling that allowed children to work 60-70 hours per week; why poppies commemorate the soldiers who died in WWI; the jobs worked by Italian-American immigrants 100 years ago; San Diego’s 1938 monumental Guardian of Water statue, a pioneer woman holding a jug of the precious resource; and other lesser known historical facts at Ann S. Epstein Writer on Facebook and Twitter and read more fascinating details on her website BLOG and BEHIND THE STORY feature.
For a preview, watch the Tazia & Gemma book trailer by Gash Productions below.
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