What other authors are saying:

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In ‘Mirel’s Daughter’ Kay Gill tells the story of a 10-year-old girl’s remarkable survival and escape to America during the brutal, random, murderous pogroms that swept Russia at the end of World War I.  That the girl never lost hope is a tribute to the human spirit worthy of Anne Frank.  That the girl was Kay Gill’s mother – “a single drop of rain clinging to a leaf” – adds unforgettable tenderness to an ultimately uplifting story.

              Bob Hill, Metro Columnist for the Louisville Courier-Journal, author of Double Jeopardy

Mirel’s Daughter is a touching and soulful addition to the tradition of Jewish immigrant literature.  Dramatically suspenseful and emotionally rich, it reminds us yet again how treasured are the stories of our forbearers, whatever origins, how fervent, for many, their hopes and dreams.

              Roy Hoffman, author of Chicken Dreaming Corn

In beautiful, vivid language, Kay Gill tells the haunting story of a young girl who loses her family death by death in the pogrom massacres of Ukrainian Russia.  Set historically just after World War I, when the Germans were withdrawing, the Communist revolution beginning and gangs of nationalist and tsarist bandits rampaging through Jewish villages, Mirel’s Daughter chronicles what it was like for the Jews of the Ukraine as they endured the prototype of the ethnic extermination to come.  A valuable addition to the great witness literature of the twentieth century, Kay Gill’s skillfully woven novel is a testament to the human spirit.

              Julie Brickman, author of What Birds Can Only Whisper