Eureka! California

On the 75th anniversary of my mother's escape, with her family, from Germany--for the record, it was a midnight train, November 7, 1938--I learn that "her" book, The Year of Goodbyes, has received a 2013 Eureka Nonfiction Honor Award from the California Reading Association.  Pretty cool synchronicity.  I'm grateful to the award committee and so pleased to think of this true story about my mother's last year in Germany finding new readers on the west coast.Also cool is that my friend and colleague Susan Stockdale's book, Stripes of All Types, has received the Eureka Nonfiction Gold Award.  They don't give out many of those, my friends!