On Bittersweet Place Review in the Jewish Daily Forward
Ronna Wineberg’s (AFP ‘04 Fiction) novel questions identity and historical change in a coming of age story “As Ronna Wineberg’s novel "On Bittersweet Place” opens, the Czernitski family is escaping Russia. Revolution is in the air, and the family fears religious persecution. In the prologue, set in 1922, Lena, the young narrator of the book,…