Radiant as the Stars
In April 1911, Jews escaping pogroms are fleeing to America, but 20-year-old Anna Reader is headed in the opposite direction, back to the Ukrainian shtetl from which her family fled six years earlier. She has decided to join her radical cousin in the Jewish Labor Bund on the ever of the Russian revolution, leaving behind her work in a Chicago sweatshop and the lover who jilted her.