By: Barbara Viniar
ISBN: 9798897409976
Sibylline Press, 2025
In 1910, fearing escalating violence against the Jews in Russia, Feige’s father arranges for her to marry a wealthy cousin in New York City. She will no longer be her parents adored “little bird.” As she adapts to life in America, she goes from being an obedient daughter to a dutiful wife, even allowing her new husband to change her name to Fannie. Longing to make her own decisions, her husband’s cruelty finally pushes her to risk leaving him. She parlays her embroidery skills into a job and finds the man she believes is the love of her life. When he betrays her, she refuses to forgive him, disregarding advice to overlook men’s lapses. Finally, she meets a man who both loves and respects her. Can she give up her hard-won independence? Little Bird is the story of a girl who finds the courage to forge her own path to womanhood.
About the Author
Barbara Viniar was born and raised in the Bronx, New York. She started her career as an administrator in higher education while teaching women’s studies and literature part time and writing her doctoral dissertation on “Women’s Moral Development in Contemporary Fiction.”
After retiring from her second college presidency in 2018, she turned to blogging and writing a daily Haiku. During COVID, a chance discovery about her grandmother compelled her to imagine the story that became her debut novel, Little Bird.
Barbara has just begun writing her second historical novel.
To learn more about Barbara Viniar and her work, please see www.barbaraviniar.com
