When your family comes from Eastern Europe, you get used to being called a Bohunk -- someone who's ignorant, lazy, and still has Old World farm dirt in their ears. Someone from a place that people don't care enough about to learn its real name. Stanislava feels stuck in her deeply traditional Slovene community in Colorado in 1910. But when she finds a library book about an immigrant girl's college adventure, she discovers a dazzling world of opportunity. She's desperate to be like the book's heroine, Katinka, who starts life anew as Katie and is seemingly living the American dream.
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