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So how exactly does one remember a world that literally no more exists? How do the moral imperatives to take action correspond to the non-public needs which make it possible? Told from the point-of-view of Marta Eisenstein Street on the occasion of her 18th birthday, Barren Island is the story of a manufacturer island in New York's Jamaica Bay, where in fact the city's lifeless horses and other large animals were rendered into glue and fertilizer from the mid-19th century until the 1930s. The island itself is as central to the story as the customers of the Jewish, Greek, Italian, Irish, and African-American manufacturer young families that inhabit it, including those who live their whole lives steeped in the smell of burning up animal flesh. The story starts with the introduction of the Eisenstein family, immigrants from Eastern Europe, and explores how the political and public upheavals of the 1930s affect them and their neighborhood friends in the years between your stock market crash of Oct 1929 and the beginning of World War II a decade later. Labor strife, union riots, the New Deal, the World's Fair, and the struggle to save Western Jews from the growing threat of Nazi terror inform this book up to the explosion of civil and public liberties between your two World Wars.
