This is the final title in the Czech-born author's autobiographical trilogy describing her teen years before, during, and after the Holocaust (I Have Lived a Thousand Years and My Bridges of Hope.) Bitton-Jackson writes about what it was like to immigrate to America as a young woman in 1951. Still shaken from her harrowing experiences in Europe and the loss of her father, she is fragile, innocent and hopeful. While her early experiences in Brooklyn are trying, she slowly finds friends, love and work, always sustained by her Orthodox Judaism. Young Adult.