Tag: Towers of Gold
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Towers of Gold Lands on the NYT’s Essential California Reading List!
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Frances Dinkelspiel’s Towers of Gold: How One Jewish Immigrant Named Isaias Hellman Created California, was picked by the New York Times for its California Reading List, alongside such classic titles as Amy Tan’s Joy Luck Club and John Steinbeck’s Tortilla Flat. Frances spent nearly a decade researching and writing about the life of her great-great-grandfather,…