The Slovakian

Although my characters are fictitious the novel deals with the Slovaks endless struggle for survival. For a thousand years they were under the boot of the invading barbaric Huns. During the reign of the Austro-Hungarian Empire in the early nineteen hundred Slovaks migrated to America where life was hard but eventually fruitful. The defeat of the Hungarian during World War I, finally brought justice and equality the two main characters Jon and Stasha are involved in a romantic relationship that will baffle the imagination.

I was raised in a Slovak, Irish, Syrian, Jewish neighborhood in Allentown, Pa. My mother encouraged me to read at an early age and inundated me with historical novels. After graduating from high school I joined the U.S. Air Force during the Korean conflict. I served four years, got married and decided to be a hairstylist. I retired after forty five years. Growing up, I heard stories from my Slovak grandparents and from other immigrants that were still pouring into the neighborhood during the nineteen thirties and forties. A short time after my retirement one of my children remembered grandma telling me to write a novel someday and now you'll know the rest of the story.