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The Harness Maker’s Dream follows the story of Ukrainian immigrant Nathan Kallison’s journey to the United States in search of a brighter future. | Nick Kotz on writing The Harness Maker’s Dream in The Kirkus Review BACK STORY: A PULITZER-WINNING JOURNALIST EXAMINES HIS OWN FAMILY by Nick Kotz on November 7, 2013 After many years as a journalist—investigating presidents, congressmen, and labor union officials, examining the military-industrial complex, civil rights and social justice issues—I never imagined that the most challenging and rewarding story would be about my own family. Growing up in San Antonio, I knew little about my Kallison grandparents in whose home my mother and I lived for the first twelve years of my life. They were two of 23 million men, women and children—two million of them Jews from Russia and Eastern Europe—who

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