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Set during the Unhappiness, this haunting historical novel by M. E. Kerr uses two teenage girls - one German, the other American - whose companionship plays out up against the quickly shifting political world stage. Jessie Myrer is the child of the prison warden in Cayuta State, where there are few foreigners and even fewer Jews. Jessie's provincial views change when she complies with her new across-the-street neighbor. At 15, superior, German-born Elisa Stadler is annually more than Jessie. Girls would seem to own little in keeping, yet they soon become the best of friends. Then one night, they listen to the music of the prison band's spellbinding single bugler. Convicted murderer and gifted musician Slater Carr is the hottest arrival at Cayuta Prison. Jessie and Elisa become obsessed with Slater, who to Jessie is similar to a local John Dillinger - and who was an unwitting part of a botched robbery where two people were killed. Whenever a daring get away from culminates in murder, Elisa's family goes back to Germany, where Hitler is increasing to electric power. Years later, Jessie makes a stunning finding about her long-lost friend. Your Eyes in Celebrities is a stunning novel about companionship, prejudice, assimilation, and the finish of innocence.