All I Could Never Be
Yezierska, Anzia In this heartfelt novel, written in 1932, Fanya Ivanowna, a Polish Jew from New York's Lower East Side, meets Henry Scott, a well-bred professor who first helps her fulfill her ambition to become a writer, then falls in love with her-but only to change his mind and rebuff her socially. Fanya is hurt, but instead of returning to the ghetto to live among "her own people, " as so many have done before her, she decides to continue to better herse...