Michal's Destiny
by Roberta Kagan
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Pub Date 26 Sep 2024 | Archive Date 16 Sep 2024
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Description
1919 Siberia. Michal—a young, sheltered girl—has eyes for a man other than her betrothed. In her traditional Jewish settlement, arranged marriages are a fact of life. However, destiny has other plans for Michal.
When a Cossack pogrom shatters her small village, she is forced to leave her home and embark on a journey to Berlin with the man she thought she wanted.
Facing love, loss, and heartache, Michal harbors a secret that threatens her every attempt at happiness. Over the next fourteen tumultuous years, during the peak of the Weimar Republic, she learns she is willing to do anything to have the love she longs for and to protect her family.
But it is now 1933. Life in Berlin is changing, especially for the Jews. With Adolf Hitler's rise to chancellor, dark storm clouds loom on the horizon, threatening to change everything for Michal forever.
Available Editions
| EDITION | Paperback |
| ISBN | 9781957207681 |
| PRICE | US$17.99 (USD) |
| PAGES | 306 |
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Featured Reviews
Shirley M, Reviewer
Learning to Survive
Michal is a dutiful Jewish girl living in a small village in Russia. She marries the man her father arranges for her and thinks she will have a happy life in the village. That is before the Cossacks come and murder her husband when they attack the village.
The Jewish boy Taavi, that has been flirting with her while she was married, saves her she feels like she has no other choice but to marry him and travel to Berlin where he can get a job. With no family left she feels completely alone.
In the years that follow Michal leaves Taavi because she cannot be with him as a wife because of the damage the Cossack caused to her. She than has to learn to survive on her own in the large city of Berlin.
As they go their separate ways Michal becomes a strong woman surviving on her own in Berlin. She never forgets Taavi and wishes things could be different and that they could be together. Taavi never forgets Michal and doesn’t understand why she left. Will they find their way back to each other?
Just as life gets a little easier and looks better for Michal, Adolf Hitler rises and things start getting really bad for the Jewish people in Berlin. Can she survive the Nazi’s.
A great first book to a brand-new series. I can’t wait for the next book.
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