From the award-winning author of Sons and Daughters of Ease and Plenty, coming Summer 2016.
In 1939, the families in a remote Jewish village in Romania feel the war close in on them. Their tribe has moved and escaped for thousands of years- across oceans, deserts, and mountains-but now, it seems, there is nowhere else to go. Danger is imminent in every direction, yet the territory of imagination and belief is limitless. At the suggestion of an eleven-year-old girl and a mysterious stranger who has washed up on the riverbank, the villagers decide to reinvent the world: deny...
From the award-winning author of Sons and Daughters of Ease and Plenty, coming Summer 2016.
Reminiscent of Aimee Bender and Karen Russell an enthralling collection that uses the world of the imagination to explore the heart of the human condition. Major literary talent Ramona Ausubel, author of Sons and Daughters of Ease and Plenty, combines the otherworldly wisdom of her much-loved debut novel, No One Is Here Except All of Us, with the precision of the short-story form.A Guide to Being Born is organized around the stages of life love, conception, gestation, birth and the transformations that happen as people experience deeply altering life events, falling...
Reminiscent of Aimee Bender and Karen Russell an enthralling collection that uses the world of the imagination to explore the heart of the human condi...
"A timely, sophisticated tale that] explores what happens when a charmed life loses its luster." -O Magazine
From the award-winning author of No One Is Here Except All of Us, an imaginative novel about a wealthy New England family in the 1960s and '70s that suddenly loses its fortune--and its bearings. An NPR Best Book of 2016 One of Best Books of Summer -O Magazine One of The 12 Summer Books That Everyone Will Be Talking About -Harper's Bazaar One of 20 Books Perfect for Your Summer Vacay...
"A timely, sophisticated tale that] explores what happens when a charmed life loses its luster." -O Magazine
