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Helene Wecker

Helene Wecker appears in the following:

Pack Your Bags: 3 Books About Coming To America

Sunday, August 18, 2013

NPR

By Helene Wecker

Can there be any experience more kaleidoscopic in its emotions, more full of hopes and fears and just plain confusions, than that of coming to America? I'm no expert, certainly — but my research on immigration for my recent novel, as well as my own family history, points to a ...