In 1931, under the cloud of the Great Depression, twenty-one-year-old Birdie, a Jewish New Yorker, loses her job at Macy's. Disenchanted with the American way, her growing belief in the Soviet system drives her to travel to Russia, where she has a romance with a writer who is denounced and sent to Siberia-but not before she becomes pregnant with his child.
In her attempts to free him, Birdie is aided by an American journalist, whom she eventually marries. Just before World War II, Birdie returns to the United States with her husband and daughter.
In moving back to America, Birdie is...
In 1931, under the cloud of the Great Depression, twenty-one-year-old Birdie, a Jewish New Yorker, loses her job at Macy's. Disenchanted with the A...
