books.google.com - "Heralded by one reviewer as ""the most serious, extended and dignified of [Edna] Ferber's books,"" Fanny Herself is the intensely personal chronicle of a young girl growing up Jewish in a small midwestern town. Packed with the warmth and the wry, sidelong wit that made Ferber one of the best-loved writers...http://books.google.com/books/about/Fanny_herself.html?id=xLoqDnHULCIC&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareFanny herself