Pacific Street Amy Bess Cohen 9781541170360 Books
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Imagine being a sixteen year old boy, walking across Europe and leaving your whole family behind. Imagine being a young girl, the poor daughter of immigrants, trying to bridge the gap between your parents and the world they now live in. In this novel, the author takes you into their world and their minds so that we can all experience what their lives must have been like.
Pacific Street Amy Bess Cohen 9781541170360 Books
The story of Cohen’s grandparents, Isadore and Gussie, is an inspiring coming-to-America tale with all the resonance of actual experience. Cohen has painstakingly documented the early part of her relatives’ lives through historical research using official documents and has incorporated information shared through family stories.She has researched the settings and cultures described and added her own imagination to infuse the book with appropriate details and descriptions. This is no dry historical telling, but a well-structured adventure full of tragedies and triumphs like a novel, although more accurately, it is creative nonfiction in the historical subgenre.
As Cohen alternates the narratives of Isadore and Gussie (until their stories merge together near the end), the reader becomes one with the characters. The loneliness of both characters is excruciating, especially since family is so important to both of them.
Isadore was forced to immigrate to the United States by himself when he was only sixteen years old, and when he arrives the aunt entrusted to welcome him to the new world is emotionally unavailable to him. Gussie in many ways still lives the immigrant life of her parents’ generation. Her world is circumscribed and without time for play. When the two finally meet up in a very romantic first encounter, the reader is more than ready that these two find happiness.
Will their happiness last? The book resolves that question in a realistic manner. It will be a worthwhile experience for any reader to follow Isadore and Gussie on their journeys.
As a writer who frequently works with history and, especially, family history, I was impressed by Cohen’s ability to describe many characters in large families in a way that leaves a lasting impression on the reader. When I began the book and when I finished the book, I had the same thought: that the genre of this book can be further refined to young adult. The material is as complex and fascinating as any for the adult reader, but the approach to adult themes and the focus on the coming-of-age period of life for both protagonists is consistent with books for older children and teen readers, as well as adults.
This is a book you might want to read yourself and then pass on to your child or grandchild. It’s a story of family for families.
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Pacific Street Amy Bess Cohen 9781541170360 Books Reviews
The story was interesting but the writing was dull.
Kept me wanting more. Couldn't put the book down.
Great story based on some research of her relatives mixed with what she believes the world was like at the time.
Wonderful story!
This is a well-written, thoroughly engaging book, especially relevant today in the light of Trump's actions concerning immigrants,
This is an American story. A story of family. A story of immigrants coming to America for a better life. A story of coming of age. A story of love. Author Amy Cohen pulls the reader deep into the alternating narratives of her grandparents,Isidore and Gussie, conjuring up life in Iasi, Romania and Brooklyn, New York at the turn of the 20th century with such wonderful detail and vibrancy that the reader is there with them. The story is shaped by the ebb and flow of their challenges and joys. She had me crying in some parts, laughing in others, and always interested in what would happen next for these two young people. She has brought a critical slice of American history alive and made it relatable to readers of all ages. Her extensive historical and genealogical research adds remarkable depth and authenticity to her narrative. This is a book you will want to read!
A beautifully written story combining narratives of the history of the author's grandmother and grandfather and how they eventually meet and marry.
That being said, it paints the story of the immigrant as an outsider in the US at the end of the nineteenth century going into the early twentieth century. And it portrays the persecution of the Jewish community in eastern Europe and the assimilation of immigrants compared to members of the native born New York Jewish community. This book brings it all together with a woven thread of love, loss, challenge, and new love as two families come together. Hope to see more stories like this!
I am also of Romanian Jewish decent, and my grandparents immigrated to the U.S. through Ellis Island around the same time as Isadore. They met in New York, and first lived on Orchard St, then moved to Brooklyn. They had 8 children. My Dad, who is 98, has told me many stories similar to those in this book about his childhood. But this book filled in some blanks for me, because nobody in the family ever talked of the antisemitism in Romania, and throughout Eastern Europe at the time. I didn't realize how bad it was, how widespread, how early. Now I know why my grandparents left there home country, and a cousin of mine confirmed that Jews were not allowed to own property when I told her about this book.
Even though I had personal interest in this story, it nonetheless is well-written, and historically accurate about New York at the turn of the last century. I think it would be of interest to anyone who likes historical fiction, or New York City. Thanks to the author for some further insights into the history of my own family.
What a fascinating read! Amy is a genealogist who used facts about her ancestors and then imagined the additional details to create this lovely story. I've read several Holocaust memoirs, but this is the story of getting out of Europe because of anti-semitism many years before the Holocaust. Amy's family members came to America and then worked to help bring other immediate family members to the US while building a life here. I gained a deeper understanding of the persecution Jewish families experienced in Europe well before the rise of Nazi power. A wonderfully moving read.
The story of Cohen’s grandparents, Isadore and Gussie, is an inspiring coming-to-America tale with all the resonance of actual experience. Cohen has painstakingly documented the early part of her relatives’ lives through historical research using official documents and has incorporated information shared through family stories.
She has researched the settings and cultures described and added her own imagination to infuse the book with appropriate details and descriptions. This is no dry historical telling, but a well-structured adventure full of tragedies and triumphs like a novel, although more accurately, it is creative nonfiction in the historical subgenre.
As Cohen alternates the narratives of Isadore and Gussie (until their stories merge together near the end), the reader becomes one with the characters. The loneliness of both characters is excruciating, especially since family is so important to both of them.
Isadore was forced to immigrate to the United States by himself when he was only sixteen years old, and when he arrives the aunt entrusted to welcome him to the new world is emotionally unavailable to him. Gussie in many ways still lives the immigrant life of her parents’ generation. Her world is circumscribed and without time for play. When the two finally meet up in a very romantic first encounter, the reader is more than ready that these two find happiness.
Will their happiness last? The book resolves that question in a realistic manner. It will be a worthwhile experience for any reader to follow Isadore and Gussie on their journeys.
As a writer who frequently works with history and, especially, family history, I was impressed by Cohen’s ability to describe many characters in large families in a way that leaves a lasting impression on the reader. When I began the book and when I finished the book, I had the same thought that the genre of this book can be further refined to young adult. The material is as complex and fascinating as any for the adult reader, but the approach to adult themes and the focus on the coming-of-age period of life for both protagonists is consistent with books for older children and teen readers, as well as adults.
This is a book you might want to read yourself and then pass on to your child or grandchild. It’s a story of family for families.
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