Oodl's Journey

This is Holly Snow Sillau's sixteenth book and her first historical novel. In a most clever fashion, she takes us through a young girl's emigration from Eastern Europe in the early years of the twentieth century. The story flashes quite smoothly from the recent past of the midfifties to the earlier time and back again. The chapters are laden with vivid descriptions, beautiful feelings, humor, and wonder. Readers will even pick up some Yiddish as they follow along with Oodl on her journey from being an Orthodox Jewish girl in a tiny Hungarian town to becoming a newly arrived immigrant at Ellis Island and beyond.