{"product_id":"golden-flight-bright-one-series-book-two-9781964700786","title":"Golden Flight: Bright One Series: Book Two","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIn 1933, as antisemitism spreads across Europe, fifteen-year-old Berta leaves Czernowitz on a journey that will change her life forever.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMarried to a man three times her age, Berta is forced to surrender childhood overnight, stepping into the role of wife before she has fully learned who she is. Marriage was meant to secure her future. Instead, it carries her across borders just as hostility toward Jews intensifies and the ground beneath her people begins to shift.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat was meant to be a quick and safe departure becomes a desperate migration as anti-Jewish persecution grows and escape routes narrow. By 1935, Berta and her husband Solomon are stranded in Istanbul, suspended between continents and consequences. Months pass in suffocating uncertainty. Promised departures collapse without explanation. Funds diminish. Friendships disappear into another ship's wake. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd within the confines of marriage, Berta begins to understand that protection does not always resemble love, and that survival may demand more maturity than she was ever meant to possess. When passage to Palestine is finally secured, relief does not come easily. She has learned how quickly certainty dissolves. Ahead lies open water and the fragile hope of safety. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBehind her, a Europe turning its back on Jews and closing its doors. Between those two realities stands a young woman who must decide which parts of herself she is willing to sacrifice to endure.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSet against the tightening grip of pre-war Europe, this sweeping and intimate second installment of the \u003cem\u003eBright One\u003c\/em\u003e series traces Berta's forced coming of age amid exile, identity loss, and the quiet, often invisible costs of survival.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBOOK TWO of the \u003cem\u003eBRIGHT ONE\u003c\/em\u003e SERIES\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Berta's story emerges against the darkening backdrop of prewar Europe, and Lisajoy Sachs grounds it in vivid historical detail while never losing sight of what Jewish families had to endure to survive.\" - \u003cstrong\u003eKit Sergeant\u003c\/strong\u003e, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Doctor of Auschwitz\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBOOK THREE, \u003cem\u003e ALIYAH\u003c\/em\u003e, releasing 2027.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Historium Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/14\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781964700786\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 356\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.42lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.94d","brand":"Lisajoy Sachs","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52934140625077,"sku":"9781964700786","price":29.74,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/golden-flight-bright-one-series-book-two-9781964700786","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}