pbiThe Night Birds Still Singib is a semi-autobiographical childhood memoir that takes us to Hollywood of the 1940s with a colorful cast of characters living in a newly divorced, Jewish mother's rooming house. The young protagonist dramatizes her tumultuous life while discovering nascent literary talent. pAt first, moving to the grand house and living among her mother's roomers was a welcome reprieve from her parents' constant fights, but Phoebe still walks in her sleep, and her sister has nightmares.ppIt began on the evening after Pearl Harbor was attacked. Phoebe's best friend and family were hauled away by the police to an internment camp, and her parents had their worst fight ever. Her mother leaves the marriage, and, to carry herself and her daughters through the war, opens a Hollywood rooming house. The old Victorian is a real buy, as the government is selling the confiscated houses of Japanese families under the market value.ppNow all the windows are darkened at night, and all t