"We all have our dreams," said Mrs. Marsan. "They don't cost a dime, and they don't take up much space."

Here is a book for people who believe life can hold happiness and hope and laughter. The scene is a small apartment house in Sunnyside, just thirty minutes from Times Square -- a lowly kind of Grand Hotel, but to Mrs. Lily Marsan as exciting a place as anyone could ask. Mrs. Marsan couldn't help sharing in the lives of everyone around her. She believed firmly in fate and the stars, but sometimes she had to give fate a shove in the right direction. In Give Us Our Dream, Arthemise Goertz has built a novel of amazing heart and humor, a novel whose strength lies in the magic of everyday existence, in the influence that one woman can have on the lives, the great hopes and small pleasures, of her friends and neighbors.