Evergreen Author:Belva Plain EVERGREEN is an epic novel that sweeps the reader up in the dramatic saga of Anna Friedman -- beautiful, bewitching Anna, who had come to New York at the turn of the century from a Polish stetl. Yearning for a better life, she leaves the sweatshops to find work as a maid in the home of the elegant Werners of the Upper West Side. Anna... more » is torn between the love of two men -- virile, aristocratic Paul Werner, scion of a German-Jewish banking family, and Joseph Friedman, who adores her, but who is an immigrant as poor as Anna. It is Joseph she marries, and, through an act of illicit passion that will follow her all her days, Anna lifts him from poverty to the millions of real-estate dollars on which the Friedman dynasty will be based for generations to come.« less