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Loosely based on the Greek myth of Antigone who inevitably suffers as a rebel in her family the poems are filled with anguish emotional violence and suffering. However Slaight comments near the end of her book that she wanted to 'live all lives all deaths encompass all women.' Thus the pain anguish and suffering in this book applies to more than just the doomed Antigone of Greek mythology it applies to the collective suffering of all women.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe tone of the poems is understandably dark considering the subject material and the periodic charcoal drawings by Terrence Tasker only enhance the haunting nature of the story told by Slaight. Furthermore the poems are delivered from a deeply personal and intimate viewpoint so the reader is often tied directly to the emotions of the speaker. 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She is the recipient of a scholarship in fiction to the Bread Loaf Writers Conference and residencies to the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts and the Ragdale Foundation. She has been awarded a fellowship in fiction from the New York Foundation for the Arts. She is the founding fiction editor of the \u003ci\u003eBellevue Literary Review \u003c\/i\u003e and lives in New York.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"normal\"\u003e\"Long before the phenomenon that is Lena Dunham Ronna Wineberg gives us the unforgettable Lena Czernitski. This incredible girl will steal your heart. She is passionate and practical fierce but also forgiving. Wineberg's debut novel \u003ci\u003eOn Bittersweet Place\u003c\/i\u003e will hold you in its gentle enthrall. A coming of age novel an immigrant story and an altogether moving meditation on life and the pursuit of happiness.\" -- Marcy Dermansky author of \u003ci\u003eBad Marie \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"normal\"\u003e\"In the pages of Ronna Wineberg's \u003ci\u003eOn Bittersweet Place \u003c\/i\u003eone finds echoes of Anzia Yezierska and Betty Smith in the fictional story of Lena Czernitski's immigrant family in the first quarter of the 20th century the reader recovers a piece of our larger American history. Quite impressive.\" -- Erika Dreifus author of \u003ci\u003eQuiet Americans\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"normal\"\u003e\"A powerful evocation of the complexities of the early 20th-century immigrant experience too often sugar-coated and sentimentalized. Rich with precise period detail and iconic historical references \u003ci\u003eOn Bittersweet Place \u003c\/i\u003ebrings to life the travails and triumphs of one Jewish-American family readers will not easily forget.\" -- Joan Leegant author of \u003ci\u003eWherever You Go \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"normal\"\u003e\"Youth is never all sweet and \u003ci\u003eOn Bittersweet Place's\u003c\/i\u003e Lena a Russian-born Jewish teenager in 1920s Chicago certainly has her share of troubles. The sweetness is there though in this heartfelt coming-of-age tale -- in the tenderness of Wineberg's beautiful prose and the pluck of its resilient young heroine. A story that stays with you.\" -- Anne Korkeakivi author of\u003ci\u003e An Unexpected Guest\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"normal\"\u003e\"A tender -- and tenderly rendered \u0026amp;ndash\u0026amp;ndash portrait of a young Russian emigre undergoing transplantation shock in the New World. Wineberg's wide-eyed protagonist never sheds her guileless idealism nor does Wineberg's limpid prose ever shed its unassuming grace.\" \u003ci\u003e-- \u003c\/i\u003ePeter Selgin author of \u003ci\u003eDrowning Lessons \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Relegation Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41321557033110,"sku":"9780984764815","price":13.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0477\/8731\/1254\/products\/img_proxy_91a1598a-19ed-4223-80b6-5c664253092e.jpg?v=1642156291"}],"url":"https:\/\/itascabooks.com\/collections\/1122literary.oembed?page=39","provider":"Itasca Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}