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Never Home

The Otherness of Immigrants

In Never Home: The Otherness of Immigrants, author Norma Armon tells the powerful story of two immigrants fleeing persecution and seeking a new beginning in America.

Their journey—from the shtetls of Eastern Europe to the challenges of starting over in a foreign land—captures the resilience, identity struggles, and hopes shared by countless immigrants.

A moving tribute to the courage it takes to rebuild, Never Home invites readers to experience the profound impact of the immigrant journey.

"An uplifting story about the struggle and courage of immigrants to make a new life in America"

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Norma Armon has written a moving story about the lives of an immigran famiywho fled from the shtetls of Ukraine and the pogroms of pre-war Russia. The book traces the fortunes of their families and their courageous struggles to make a life in the new world.

This was a quick and easy read that kept me interested throughout. The characters are well developed and you can get a real feel for their world and circumstances at the time.

Never Home is a gripping tale about Russians immigrating through Rumania and the U.S to Mexico. But it also reflects the achievement of the the American dream for poor rural families. Very few of us have personally experienced the very emotional family squabblers, the great difficulty of the journey to where the streets are paved with gold, and the perseverance and sacrifices needed to become truly wealthy. Ms Armon skillfully has her characters jump off the pages to vividly tell us in a way we won't forget. She leaves us hungering for the second and third books in her trilogy.

"Never Home: The Otherness of Immigrants" weaves together a compelling story of two families' travails in emigrating to the Americas and the societal structures in Europe, the U.S.A., and Mexico (with a touch of Canda thrown in) that impacted the family members. It paints a vivid picture of the complex family relationships that are easy to relate to for anyone. The protagonists Ben and Goittie are strong minded people who keep you engaged with the plot. Ms. Armon did a deft job of setting the paths for the protagonists to meet. Ms. Armon also grounds the stories in their time with detailed descriptions of the places they lived and difficulties they faced in making their way to the Americas and how they achieved their goals.

Norma Armon has written a remarkable book. Deeply researched, she writes vividly of her family's disaspora, finally ending in Mexico where they create a new life. She fully fleshes out her main charaters, Goittie and Ben, which pulled me into the story...I could hardly put down the book. I look forward to reading the rest of the trilogy.

Norma Armon is to be commended for her painstaking, imaginative recreation of a Jewish shtetl community and two unforgettable characters modeled on her parents who make their way from Russia to Canada, the United States and finally Mexico in the 1920s. With no more live witnesses to that perilous and complicated journey, Armon's moving and entertaining narrative is further enriched by its important testimonial dimension.

This is a short read, but engaging. We follow the lives of immigrants with different temperaments and goals. I have never felt how awful the third class journeys on the boats were coming over. The courage and resilience comes through. I really learned a lot about the Jewish immigrants who moved to Mexico and formed a vibrant community. You care about the characters. You won't be disappointed.

Never Home

The Otherness of Immigrants

"An uplifting story about the struggle and courage of immigrants to make a new life in America"

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