It was mentioned as a book about a young Jewish-American girl who acts out scenarios she believes her relatives from Europe who survived WWII have endured, leading to a powerful moment when she meets them.
Judy Blume had a book called Starring Sally J. Friedman as herself. Did you ever read that book?
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Episode: 324 - Hit That Mute Button
It was mentioned as a book about a young Jewish-American girl who acts out scenarios she believes her relatives from Europe who survived WWII have endured, leading to a powerful moment when she meets them.
Judy Blume had a book called Starring Sally J. Friedman as herself. Did you ever read that book?
Okay, so it's about a young Jewish girl and she has family that survived World War II that are coming over from Europe. They're emigrating to come and live with them. Like they have two, like a cousin or something. I can't remember, but I read this book when I was like 10 years old and Sally J. Friedman, the lead character, is this young American, a Jewish American girl who wants to be an actress.
So she keeps acting out these dramatic things that she thinks these relatives have been through and she's doing it, whatever, and then she actually meets them. And it was really powerful.
A really powerful book to read as a kid and also an amazing way to get introduced to the Holocaust of like, this is what people went through.