Novels
Novels
Street Corner Dreams
Financial disaster and the Jewish and Italian Mafia, threaten a family’s very existence in the turbulent years between the two World Wars.
How to Make a Life
Four generations of an immigrant family become Americanized as they conquer trauma, betrayal and loss with love, acceptance and hope.
Novels
Family, romance, and gangsters support and thwart Golda, Ben, and Morty from achieving their dreams.
Golda gives up independence to marry her widowed brother-in-law, Ben, and care for baby Morty; later, Ben's business mistakes cause financial disaster, forcing Morty to bargain with gangsters and sacrifice his love and career-and perhaps the ability to ever go home again-to save his father.
Street Corner Dreams
How to Make a Life
A sweeping saga that follows four generations from the tenements of Brooklyn through WWII, from Woodstock to India, and from Spain to Israel.
How to Make a Life is the story of a family who must learn to accept each other's differences--or risk cutting ties with the very people who anchor their place in the world.
Florence Reiss Kraut
Florence Reiss Kraut is a native New Yorker, raised and educated in New York City. She holds a BA in English and a MSW in social work, and she worked for over thirty years as a family therapist before retiring to concentrate on her writing and travel widely.
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