Horodno Burning, in-person/Zoom author talk

43 Main Street,Springfield VT 05156

13 July, 2022

Description

A Turbulent History A collaboration between the Springfield Town Library and Village Square Books Join us as we welcome Vermont author Michael Freed-Thall to talk about his published romantic historical fiction novel Horodno Burning. Esther (Estes) Leving, a brilliant young bibliophile, chafes at male dominance, religious dogma, and antisemitism. Bernard Garfinkle, a religious Jew and the son of a vodka distiller, hides a shameful secret: in a culture that worships books, he can't read. Despite their differences, they fall in love. Estes teaches Bernard to read, and he, in turn, builds her a bookshop. They start a family, but when ferocious pogroms target Russian Jews, they must confront violent oppression. Exploring this turbulent history, Horodno Burning brings the reader into a culture under terrible stress. How Estes and Bernard respond will determine not only who they become but whether they survive. When he’s not cutting next winter’s firewood, pulling weeds in the garden, or off on an adventure with his wife Patricia, Michael Freed-Thall is probably staring at his computer waiting for inspiration. When he retired after thirty years as a teacher and principal in Vermont schools, he took up writing.