WOW Review: reading across cultures
Volume VI, Issue 1
Fall 2013
Introduction and Editor’s Note
Crazy Loco
Written by David Rice
El Moto
Written by Joaquin Garcia Monge
Endangered
Written by Eliot Schrefner
The Greedy Sparrow
Retold by Lucine Kasbarian
The Herd Boy
Written by Niki Daly
Kids of Kabul: Living Bravely Through a Never-Ending War
Written by Deborah Ellis
The Language Inside
Written by Holly Thompson
The Milk of Birds
Written by Sylvia Whitman
My Family for the War
Written by Anne C. Voorhoeve
Translated from German by Tammi Reichel
Parrot in the Oven
Written by Victor Martinez
The Tsunami Quilt: Grandfather’s Story
Written by Anthony D. Fredericks
The Wakame Gatherers
Written by Holly Thompson
Contributors:
Melissa Ann Becerra, University of Texas Pan American, Edinburg, TX
Yecenia Campos, University of Texas-Pan American, Edinburg, TX
Michele Ebersole, University of Hawaii-Hilo, Hilo, HI
Holly Johnson, University of Cincinnati, OH
Blanca Leal, University of Texas-Pan American, Edinburg, TX
Avis Masuda, University of Hawaii-Hilo, Hilo, HI
Janelle Mathis, University of North Texas, Denton, TX
Judi Moreillon, School of Library and Information Studies, Texas Woman’s University, Denton, TX
Lisa Marie Ochoa, University of Texas Pan American, Edinburg, TX
Junko Sakoi, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
Vanessa Saladini, University of Texas Pan American, Edinburg, TX
Kathy G. Short, University of Arizona, Tucson
Cathy Stearns, University of North Texas, Denton, TX
Melissa B. Wilson, Southeastern Louisiana University, Hammond, LA
Editor:
Janelle Mathis, University of North Texas, Denton, TX
Production Editor:
Richard Clift
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WOW review: reading across cultures
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Dear Ms. Wilson,
I would be grateful for some details – which are the facts that I neglected to look up, specifically on Wikipedia?
The novel was written in 2005 and I consulted countless books and other media in order to describe two Jewish families in the 1930s and 1940s as credibly as possible. A good deal of the two years of writing this novel (the German original being much longer than the American edition) was spent on research in Berlin and London. Before going into print, the finished novel was read and approved by two scholars with a degree in Judaism. One of them spent most of her life in Israel.
I am very sorry for any mistake which remained in the book, also for maybe not quite catching the spirit of being Jewish in Britain in the 1940s.
With best wishes,
Anne Voorhoeve