Her mom, Laura, says an excess of friendship makes individuals delicate, and ill-equipped to confront life? s hardships, however Bitton-Jackson fears her mom isn’t warm in light of the fact that Bitton-Jackson trusts herself ugly and awkward. She yearns for her mom to be increasingly tender, similar to her companion Bonnie’s mom. Stars light up the town, and a “symphony of bugs starts its suggestion” (15).
In her “little cultivating town on the edge of the Carpathian lower regions,” the Danube is the focal element.
City I had always wanted – Somorja, Summer 1943 – Walk 1944 When she is twelve, Bitton-Jackson fantasies about turning into a praised writer and would like to go to private academy in Budapest, the city she had always wanted.