Call Me Ruth

Marilyn Sachs

1982

So I’m glad I got the napkin back. Because she made it for me when we had all the time. Back in the old country when the two of us loved each other better than anybody else in the whole world. I had nearly forgotten all about it but when my mother smiled at me that night in Carnegie Hall, I remembered. Across that big room, it was only me that she…

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Creator Bio

Marilyn Sachs

1927–2016

Children’s author Marilyn Sachs grew up in New York City and lives in San Francisco. A children’s librarian, she wrote more than thirty realistic fiction books for young readers, including stories about the Holocaust. Sachs’s Call Me Ruth received the Association of Jewish Libraries Award in 1983.

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