Street Corner Dreams by Florence Reiss Kraut

Join Florence Reiss Kraut
Discussing Her New Novel:
Street Corner Dreams
Tuesday, November 14 at 7 p.m. ET

Online via Zoom
Free & open to all

A family saga, love story and gangster tale wrapped into one great read…

Set between the two World Wars, this suspenseful family drama brings to life an immigrant family forged in tragedy and hope, struggling to attain their dreams in Brooklyn’s teeming streets. The beautifully written and realistic descriptions of the Feinstein family living amid the Jewish and Italian gangsters who ruled the New York neighborhoods in the 1920s and 1930s are captivating. You will not forget this family’s fight to rise above poverty, the ravages of the Spanish Flu and The Depression. Like Kraut’s acclaimed first novel, How to Make a Life, this well-researched page turner is another stunning work of historical fiction.

Street Corner Dreams is an exploration of a timeless question:  how much do we owe the families that have sacrificed for and shaped us—and does that debt outweigh what we owe ourselves and our own hopes and dreams for a better life?

Pick up a copy of Street Corner Dreams at The Bookstore in Lenox, or order online at Bookshop.org!

Florence Reiss Kraut is a native New Yorker, raised and educated in New York City.  She holds a BA in English and a master’s in social work. She worked for thirty years as a clinician, a family therapist and CEO of a family service agency. Florence’s first novel How to Make a Life came out in October 2020 to critical acclaim and was shortlisted for several prizes. Street Corner Dreams is her second novel.