Ann S. Epstein's creative nonfiction piece “David’s Crossing,” about her father’s experience as a young boy emigration from a Polish shtetl to America 100 years ago will be published in Ponder Review (2019, Volume 3, Issue 1).
See Ann S. Epstein’s latest “Learn History Through Fiction” posts about the eras and places in ON THE SHORE, TAZIA AND GEMMA, and her other historical fiction. Read about a new oratorio commemorating the Triangle Waist Company fire with the “swoosh” sound of dozens of scissors; the bad timing and odd prohibitions of Nevada’s 1910 strict anti-gaming laws; when donkeys turned the olive presses in old Italy; why midwives were safer than doctors 100 years ago; post-Civil War wheat farming and the migration of Southern Negro Freedmen to Kansas; the X-Rated V-Mail acronyms letter-writers used to bypass censors during WWII; too-short ladders and hoses in the tragic 1911 Triangle Waist Company fire; 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.
If you know of book clubs in the Ann Arbor, Michigan area that would enjoy reading her books and inviting her to talk with them, they can reach Ann via the CONTACT page on her website. She's also happy to Skype with book clubs located anywhere else.
For a preview, watch the Tazia & Gemma book trailer by Gash Productions below.
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