Stitching a Life: An Immigration Story

After sixteen-year-old Helen, a young Jewish girl from Russia, comes alone across the Atlantic to the Lower East Side of New York in the year 1900, she devotes herself to bringing the rest of her family to safety and opportunity in the new world-and finds love along the way.

Author: Mary Helen Fein
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: She Writes Press
Published: 06/09/2020
Pages: 256
Weight: 0.85lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.50w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9781631526770

About the Author
Fein, Mary Helen: - Mary Helen Fein was born in New York City, in 1943. She attended schools in New York and began writing at the age of twelve when her mother died. Writing has ever since been an important part of her life, a way to understand and process life's events. Mary Helen holds a BA in English literature from Temple University and an MS in computer science engineering from the University of Pennsylvania; she also studied painting at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, America's oldest art school, for two years. Today she lives in Northern California, where she owns her own website design company, writes, paints, and teaches Insight meditation. In 2014, she published her first novel, Loss of Deliverance--the story of a young woman's adventures in the drug trade during the 1960s.