The Silver Locket
Sophia Bar-Lev
CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, Apr 5 2015, $14.95
ISBN: 9781508845546
While her husband Danny serves in France, in 1942
Boston twenty-one years old Rosalie Lapkin struggles with hours of labor until
Dr. Fischer performs a C-section.
However, instead of a healthy newborn, Dr. Fischer informs Rosalie that
her daughter didn’t make it.
While her husband Joe works for his uncle in New
Mexico; in the same hospital, choosing not to nurse her newborn, Sarah
Rosenfeld feeds her healthy baby girl Dorothy.
Sarah and Rosalie become friends.
No one knows that she gave birth in the hospital; so sadly Sarah gives
her “Dorothy” to Rosalie to raise as Rebecca Sarah with only Rabbi Lowenstein’s
wife and very few others aware of the adoption.
Rosalie’s cousin Josh arrives from California
just before Rosalie learns that Danny is MIA.
At the same time Sarah moves to Pasadena to be with Joe who has a new
job there. As the years pass, Rosalie,
accompanied by her new husband and her daughter, migrates west even as she
wonders if it is time to give the precious Silver Locket to her beloved Rebecca
at her high school graduation.
This is a captivating
historical due to a strong ensemble cast who bring to life the long term
effects of heart-wrenching decisions made out of love that occur during a
crisis like a war. Readers will
appreciate Sophia Bar-Lev’s enjoyable two decade saga; as a tearful mom doing
what she believes is best for her offspring impacts two families.
Harriet Klausner
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