About the Book: Girl From Fergana: Secrets of My Mothers Chinese Tea Chest
When seven-year-old Stella flees her elegant Warsaw apartment with her family in
1939, little can she imagine that this is the last time shes seeing her home.
After crossing the Bug River to escape Nazi-occupied Poland and narrowly
escaping deportation to Auschwitz, she endures a series of harrowing incidents
before her journey brings her to the Fergana Valley—the heart of the ancient
Silk Roads. There, among the ghosts of once-thriving trade routes where cultures
intertwined and coexisted from China to Persia and India, the story of Stella
becomes part of a much older one.