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Podcast: Other Voices
Episode: Katherine Hill Brown — author of “The Summer Girl”
Description: Katherine Hill Brown of Berne has written a coming-of-age novel, “The Summer Girl,” that is more like Anne Frank’s diary than a Nancy Drew mystery although the novel refers to and has elements of each. Her novel tells the story of two girls from different cultures who become fast friends despite prejudice from both of their families. Ruthie Rosenthal, an Orthodox Jew from Brooklyn, spends the summer with her baby brother and grandmother at a run-down, once-grand hotel where Sonia Brooks has been hired as a Shabbos goy to do things like turning lights on and off, which are forbid...