![]() She was placed in Chelmno concentration camp in a queue to be executed. She learns that Gemma was a survivor of the Holocaust who narrowly escaped death due to her Jewish identity. ![]() Rebecca asks her friend Stan, an investigative journalist who works for a historical newspaper. Gemma’s youngest granddaughter, Rebecca Berlin, suspects that there is a real memory behind her grandmother’s bedtime story, which she has told countless times. The novel begins at home in Gemma’s Boston suburb just after the death of her grandmother. The third story, back in Massachusetts, unites the first and second. The first takes place at Gemma’s home in the present day and the second in World War II Poland at a concentration camp called Chelmno, or “the castle. In 1993, the novel was nominated for the Nebula Award, one of the highest honors in fiction. Gemma is a repeat storyteller, and the plot cycles back and forth through time as she recalls the story over many nights. ![]() Much of the story is told in fragments by an old woman named Gemma as she relays it to her three granddaughters during bedtime. A blend of the classic fairy tale, Sleeping Beauty (alternately Briar Rose), Jewish history, and Yolen’s own life, it was first published in the Fairy Tale Series curated by Terri Windling. ![]() Briar Rose is a 1992 novel for young adults by American author Jane Yolen. ![]()
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