Please join us on Zoom for this discussion of Kirsty Manning’s “The Song of the Jade Lily” at our monthly book club, hosted by HMTC’s Louis Posner Memorial Library.

When the Bernfeld family’s comfortable life in Vienna is shattered by the Nazis on Kristallnacht, 13-year-old Romy and her parents flee to Shanghai, an open port and one of the few places that would accept Jews in 1938. There they struggle to rebuild their lives, sharing their sense of danger within the community of German-Jewish refugees as the war rages around them, all the while searching for safety and acceptance amid the local Chinese population and striving to create their new future in this strange land.

For additional information, please contact Dr. Linda Burghardt, scholar-in-residence and discussion leader, at lindaburghardt@hmtcli.org or 516.571.8040.