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I’m thirteen today, and I wish I could turn time all the way back to my twelfth birthday…before things began to change.A young girl’s dream takes her further than she ever imagined in Sally Wahl Constain’s epic debut novel, The Keys to Fanny. An insightful glimpse into a time when women were denied even the most basic education, its strong characters will inspire audiences long after the last page is finished. When her mother dies, thirteen-year-old Fanny is unceremoniously placed in charge of the household until her father remarries. When he does, however, it is to a woman whose scheming results in Fanny’s engagement to her cruel step-cousin.Devastated at the thought of her upcoming marriage, Fanny’s Aunt Freda offers her secret passage to America. Fanny now faces the most important choice of her life: flee the only home she’s ever known and risk never seeing her family again, or marry a boy she despises.Forbidden to learn how to read and write in her village, a Jewish shtetl near Kiev, Fanny’s dream of earning an education seems to lie in escaping to America.But as she embarks on a journey of a lifetime, Fanny wonders: Will her dream ever really come true?