Ascher, Carol, 1941-
The flood : a novel / by Carol Ascher. - Curbstone Press ed. - Willimantic, CT : Curbstone Press, 1996. - 183 p. ; 22 cm.
Nine-year-old Eva Hoffman is the daughter of Austrian than Jewish refugees who have found a precarious safety among a small community of European exiles attached to a psychoanalytic hospital in Topeka, Kansas. It is 1951, and the landmark school desegregation case, Brown vs. Topeka Board of Education, is being tried in the local court. As the rising river inundates the town, the Hoffmans open their home to refugees from the flood, and Eva learns the complexities of prejudice -- and courage -- both within and outside her family.
1880684438 (acid-free paper)
96027245 //r98
Children of Holocaust survivors--Fiction.--Kansas
Antisemitism--Fiction.--Kansas
Jews--Fiction.--Kansas
Kansas--Fiction.
Allegories.
PS3551.S32 / F5 1996
813/.54
The flood : a novel / by Carol Ascher. - Curbstone Press ed. - Willimantic, CT : Curbstone Press, 1996. - 183 p. ; 22 cm.
Nine-year-old Eva Hoffman is the daughter of Austrian than Jewish refugees who have found a precarious safety among a small community of European exiles attached to a psychoanalytic hospital in Topeka, Kansas. It is 1951, and the landmark school desegregation case, Brown vs. Topeka Board of Education, is being tried in the local court. As the rising river inundates the town, the Hoffmans open their home to refugees from the flood, and Eva learns the complexities of prejudice -- and courage -- both within and outside her family.
1880684438 (acid-free paper)
96027245 //r98
Children of Holocaust survivors--Fiction.--Kansas
Antisemitism--Fiction.--Kansas
Jews--Fiction.--Kansas
Kansas--Fiction.
Allegories.
PS3551.S32 / F5 1996
813/.54