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Jane Munro's poems are explorations of the mysteries of inner experience. What are the truths of emotion? What can the body know?

Winner of the 2015 Griffin Poetry Prize

A wise and embodied collection of dreamscapes,
sutras and prayer poems from a writer at her peak

Rachel is a Jew living in Kishinev, Russia. At fourteen, she has dreams of being a writer.

It is 1904, and Rachel and her family are leaving Russia to escape the continuing riots against Jews. They take the Trans-Siberian Railway across the country and board a ship to Shanghai.

Rachel, a young Jewish woman from a small town in Russia, has made an incredible journey.