A Tale of Two Citizens: A Novel

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A lie is the only thing that can get twenty-year-old Harry Himelbaum past the cold scrutiny of Ellis Island's immigration official, Will Brown. A lie that locks them in a deadly battle. It is 1929. At home, economic depression and dust storms ravage America, and abroad, the goose step of Nazism is intensifying. Widespread fear of "the other" has re

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"A timely reminder of Americas strong roots as a nation of immigrants. . . . All of the characters, from Harrys wife and sister-in-law back in Poland to Wills wife, Barbara, are complex and authentic. . . . This well-researched, absorbing and stellar novel is one Id recommend without hesitation." Historical Novel Society
"A timely reminder of Americas strong roots as a nation of immigrants. . . . All of the characters, from Harrys wife and sister-in-law back in Poland to Wills wife, Barbara, are complex and authentic. . . . This well-researched, absorbing and stellar novel is one Id recommend without hesitation." Historical Novel Society

Author Bio

Elyce Wakerman is the author of Father Loss: Daughters Discuss the Man That Got Away, which captured the immediate and long-range effects of a fathers absence. She resides in Sherman Oaks, California.