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WINTER'S SILENCE by Stephanie Silberstein, with cover art/design by David Chayim &
photograph by Shoshannah Stone, ISBN # 978-0-9816549-0-2, Narrow Path Publishing
$12.50, June 2008

Description:

CHILDHOOD ISN'T EASY... ..

...especially for Emily Horowitz. As the only
Jewish child in her neighborhood, Emily s spirit bears a peculiar
burden. On the first night of Chanukah, she marches grimly home, a note
pinned to her pocket about her refusal to sing Christmas carols in
music class. But Emily s baby brother has just been diagnosed as
autistic, confirming her mother s worst fear. Emily is about to become
a forgotten child, lost inside a stormy world of grown-up problems and
childhood fantasies.

And winter has barely begun...

Stephanie Silberstein has been writing about children for the last five
years. Her short story Before Everything Happened, later adapted for
Winter's Silence, won an honorable mention in the 73rd Annual Writer's
Digest competition. Ms. Silberstein grew up on Long Island, New York,
as the only Jewish child in her school district. She has lived on both
coasts and now makes her home in North Carolina, where she teaches
children with disabilities.