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Snow Moon Rising
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9781932300505
ISBN: 1932300503
Label: Regal Crest Enterprises, LLC
Manufacturer: Regal Crest Enterprises, LLC
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 368
Publication Date: October 17, 2006
Publisher: Regal Crest Enterprises, LLC
Studio: Regal Crest Enterprises, LLC
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Editorial Review:
Mischka Gallo, a proud Roma woman, knows horses, dancing, and travel. Every day since her birth, she and her extended family have been on the road in their vardo wagons meandering mostly through Poland and Germany. She learned early to ignore the taunts and insults of all those who call her people "Gypsies" and do not understand their close-knit society and way of life. Pauline "Pippi" Stanek has lived a settled life in a small German town along the eastern border of Poland and Germany. In her mid-teens, she meets Mischka and her family through her brother, Emil Stanek, a World War I soldier who went AWOL and was adopted by Mischka's troupe. Mischka and Pippi become fast friends, and they keep in touch over the years. But then, the Second World War heats up, and all of Europe is in turmoil. Men are conscripted into the Axis or the Allied armies, "undesirables" are turned over to slave labor camps, and with every day that passes, the danger for Mischka, Emil, and their families increases. The Nazi forces will not stop until they've rounded up and destroyed every Gypsy, Jew, dissident, and homosexual. On the run and separated from her family, Mischka can hardly comprehend the obstacles that face her. When she is captured, she must use all her wits just to stay alive. Can Mischka survive through the hell of the war in Europe and find her family? In a world beset by war, two women on either side of the conflagration breach the divide-and save one another. Snow Moon Rising is a stunning novel of two women's enduring love and friendship across family, clan, and cultural barriers. It's a novel of desperation and honor, hope and fear at a time when the world was split into a million pieces.
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Rating: - My Hat's off to Lori Lake
Popular lesbian author Lori L. Lake has always been the consummate craftsperson, but she comes of age in this haunting, terrifying and ultimately splendid novel of the persecution of the Roma people in Nazi Europe. Although the protagonist, Mischka Gallo and Pippi Stanek share a love that lasts for decades, this is not your typical lesbian romance. Lake has her eyes set this time on a higher plane, and she realizes it in one of those rare lgbt novels that deserves the label, "literature," and that ... Read More
Rating:  - Affecting and Powerful
Lori Lake has a gift. It's not so much about constructing sentences that call attention to the writer. No, Lake pretty much vanishes behind her prose. And that's a good thing, especially in this compelling historical love story that spans two World Wars and the horrors of the Nazi "work" camps. Lake creates two indelible women, Mischka and Pippi, who, from the very beginning of the book, creep into your heart and stay there, making Snow Moon Rising nearly impossible to put down. It's obvious Lake has ... Read More
Rating: - unusual and unexpected
This is not the most tightly written novel you'll buy, but it has a big heart and I, for one, take my hat off to any lesbian author who's willing to write more than a cheesy romance. I won't describe the plot , since other reviewers have already done that, but I will just say that I felt very drawn into this story. It's quite a long one and should be read over a few days so that there is time to take in the full detail. But Ms. Lake writes with great feeling about the plight of the "Gypsies" during World ... Read More
Rating: - A historical novel that reads like an epic adventure
Snow Moon Rising is an intimate glimpse of the seasons of Mischka Gallo's life. From her happy childhood, in spite of social injustice and bigotry against the Roma people (derogatorily referred to as Gypsies), Mischka maintains her innocence through her mid-teens. Only later does reality harden her. She displays a zest for life and heroic strength, believing that, "Everyone should feel the love, enjoy the exhilaration life afforded... [O]ver time she came to realize that each soul needs its own private place ... Read More
Rating: - Story of triumph over adversity
Mischka Gallo was born with a vivid spirit--and that's a good thing. Her life is anything but easy--first growing up among the Roma in a traveling caravan in Poland and Germany, then marrying an abusive man, being sent to a 'work camp,' and finally coming to America with little more than her name. Mischka's spirit refuses to be cowed by circumstance or by man. She meets the love of her life at a young age but it takes many years for her to accept that this love is beyond anything she's familiar with.
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