Under a Red Sky by Haya Leah Molnar

Under a Red Sky by Haya Leah Molnar

Eva Zimmermann is eight years old, and she has just discovered she is Jewish. Such is the life of an only child living in postwar Bucharest, a city that is changing in ever more frightening ways. Eva's family, full of eccentric and opinionated adults, will do absolutely anything to keep her safe--even if it means hiding her identity from her. With razor-sharp depictions of her animated relatives, Haya Leah Molnar's memoir of her childhood captures with touching precocity the very adult realities of living behind the iron curtain.

Under a Red Sky is a 2011 Bank Street - Best Children's Book of the Year.

Haya Leah Molnar was born in Bucharest, Romania, and her Jewish origin was kept hidden from her to protect her from anti-Semitism. She and her family fled the Communist rule when she was ten years old, emigrating to Israel and then the United States. She used to work in advertising as a copywriter and creative director, but now she lives in New York City and writes full-time. She enjoys developing her own line of jewelry, gardening, traveling, and kayaking, in addition to having an varied taste in books. Her debut novel is titled Beneath a Red Sky.