Author: Alice Rosenthal
Publisher: She Writes Press
Date of publication: August 2018
When Bess and Frima—best friends, both nineteen and from the
same Jewish background in the Bronx—get summer jobs in upstate hotels near
Monticello, NY, in June 1940, they have visions of romance . . . but very
different expectations and needs. Frima, who seeks safety in love, finds it
with the “boy next door,” who is also Bess’s brother. Meanwhile, rebellious
Bess renames herself Beth and plunges into a new life with Vinny, an Italian
American, former Catholic, left-wing labor leader from San Francisco. Her
actions are totally unacceptable to her family—which is fine with Beth. Will
their young loves have happy endings? Yes and no, for the shadow of world war
is growing, and Beth and Frima must grow up fast. As their love lives entangle
with war, ambitions, religion, family, and politics—all kinds of conventional
expectations—they face challenges they never dreamed of in their struggles for
personal and creative growth.
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About Alice Rosenthal
Alice Rosenthal was born and raised in 1941 in the same
Bronx neighborhood as her protagonists, though a generation later. After
receiving her bachelor’s and master’s degrees from NYU, she married, divorced,
and settled in the Village-Chelsea area of Manhattan, where she maintained her
lifestyle by copyediting for academic presses. In 1976, she moved to San
Francisco and began a new worklife teaching ESL at City College of San
Francisco. She loves reading, gardening, baking, cooking, making things with
her hands, and shmoozing with her friends and family. She is the author of the
novel Take the D Train, as well as articles published in the San
Francisco Chronicle and Jewish Currents magazine.
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