Stillerman, Marci

Oma tells her grandchildren the story of her first Chanukah in the Nazi labor camps when the women worked together to create a menorah out of spoons.

The rape and murder of a young girl from Maizy and Fred's working-class neighborhood in 1930s Chicago draws them together with Zane, a preacher's son from a better part of town, as they all navigate the trials of adolescence.