She yearns for her mom to be increasingly tender, similar to her companion Bonnie’s mom. Stars light up the town, and a “symphony of bugs starts its suggestion” (15). In her “little cultivating town on the edge of the Carpathian lower regions,” the Danube is the focal element.
City I had always wanted – Somorja, Summer 1943 – Walk 1944 When she is twelve, Bitton-Jackson fantasies about turning into a praised writer and would like to go to private academy in Budapest, the city she had always wanted.
