In letters to her cousin, a young Jewish girl chronicles her family's flight from Russia in 1919 and her own experiences when she must be left in Belgium for a while when the others emigrate to America.
SRP 2011 REVIEW: Its about a girl name Rifka writing letters to her cousin. Telling her adventures to her and that she had gotten ringworms. And can't go to America until healed, her hair had fallen and shes bald. And she goes to a very rough boat that almost killed her.