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The endearing characters and evocative settings drew me in from the first page. We feel the angst of being torn between cultures, mourning for a time and place that can no longer exist, and the indelible power of first love. Shick pulls out all the stops, with her brilliant descriptions and artful plot lines that weave in and out of the decades, but it's not heavy-handed or ever too much. We also get a glimpse into a time and place few of us know anything about, which is one of the reasons I love historical fiction.
Winner of the AWP Prize for the Novel, The Golden Land digs deep into the complexities of family history and relationships. Etta Montgomery is a Boston-based labor lawyer coming to terms with the love and loss she experienced as a teenager during a 1988 family reunion in Burma. When Etta's grandmother dies, she is compelled to travel back to Myanmar (Burma) to explore the complicated adolescent memories of her grandmother's family and the violence she witnessed there. Full of rich detail and intricate relationships, The Golden Land seeks to uncover those personal…
It is April 1st, 2038. Day 60 of China's blockade of the rebel island of Taiwan.
The US government has agreed to provide Taiwan with a weapons system so advanced that it can disrupt the balance of power in the region. But what pilot would be crazy enough to run…
Writing a play within a novel is a daunting task, but Kate Feiffer pulls it off with aplomb. The tangled story of Elise and the cast of colorful characters—real and imagined—in her life had me laughing out loud at times, teary-eyed at others. Feiffer’s prose is sparkling, the wordplay is clever but not too precious, and the situations her characters get themselves into are just this side of plausible. The novel features universal themes—family drama, aging parents, sullen teenagers, horrible dates, work pressures—wrapped in a madcap tale worthy of one of the old movies Elise’s foul-mouthed mother Trudy watches endlessly. Outside my usual reading genre, and I loved every rollicking minute of it.
When her professional and family life collide, a playwright starts journaling every morning to push through her writer's block in this laugh-out-loud and fresh take on family, friendship, and the chaos of midlife.
"[A] winning adult debut..." -Publishers Weekly
"A heartwarming, sometimes hilarious meditation on writer's block, expectations, and the push and pull of constantly shifting identities." -Martha's Vineyard Magazine
Elise Hellman was once heralded by audiences and critics as a "playwright to watch." Then they forgot all about her. When a prestigious theater company unexpectedly offers her a generous commission to write a new play, she has an opportunity…
