Book Synopsis:
What does it take to forsake all that’s familiar: lives, language, customs, culture, family, history
to pick up stakes and flee to a new world where much is promised but nothing guaranteed?
This is the frightful challenge facing the Kaczmarek family in 19 th century Silesia, Poland.
Where does an individual and a family find the courage to face such a wrenching ordeal? Will the dreams, the fears, the hopes and misgivings pull them together or tear them apart? Will they
overcome their doubts or succumb to the depredations of their Prussian overlords? What kind of
people would trade the security of the known for the tentative promises of freedom and
Opportunity?
And what is the essence of this United States of America that beckoned them and still beckons
others from all the ends of the earth to its promised shores?
Follow them here on their onerous journey over land and sea and heartache as they dare to seek freedom and fortune far from the meager comforts of home.
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Author Info
Jan Notzon is a novelist and playwright who has made Charlotte, NC his home since 1994.
His first novel, The Dogs Barking, is a coming-of-age story set in a sleepy backwater Texas border town in the 1950s, through the dislocation of university life in the ’60s and on to the raw, frenetic power of New York City. His second novel, And Ye Shall Be As Gods, recounts a brother’s fight to rescue his beloved sister from the clutches of despair and his lost love from the prison of catatonia. The Id Paradox, is the story of three friends, assumed betrayal, rescue and healing from the horrors of spiritual annihilation. His fourth, Song for the Forsaken, chronicles the tale of two sisters and the loss of faith that tests the bond between them. His penultimate, Suffer Not The Mole People, tells the story of his ancestors’ perilous emigration from 19th century Poland. His recently published, ONLY THE DEAD (Know the End of War), chronicles the lives of three families, two Mexican and one Anglo as they make their way to the showdown of the founding of the Texas Republic. His most recently published novel, To Sing Like a Mockingbird tells the story of one young man’s fight to mature beyond naïve idealism.
He has also written seven full-length plays, a one-act, The Forsaken, which was produced in two different venues in New York City and premiered in Columbia, SC. His play The Cosmological Constant was workshopped and presented as a staged reading at Actors’ Theatre in Charlotte, NC by the Applebox Production Company. His play When Good Men Do Nothing was a finalist in the Dramarama Competition in San Francisco. He has also written one children’s story, The Gift of Arbol Ceiba.
Jan has also worked as an actor, appearing on Another World, Search for Tomorrow, Matlock, The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles and, most recently, in Beverly Lewis’ The Confession on The Hallmark Channel, a work directed by Michael Landon Jr., starring Adrian Paul and Sherry Stringfield.
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It’s time for my July TBR! I am sharing all the books I will be adding to my summer reading plans, including one carryover from June. Let me know in the comments what books you’re adding to your TBR this month!
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