As an infant, Charlotte Cohen is left in New York by her mother Mara, who has joined her husband George, a soldier in the Spanish Civil War. The couple is killed, Charlotte is taken in by George's brother Buck and his wife Rose, the situation giving ...
Julia, a professor of creative writing and a writer as well as the mother of two young black sons and the wife of an African American man, wrestles with a loss of control as her sons grow toward the point of leaving home. Their leaving is complica...
Some Place Quite Unknown is a novel written as a memoir about a woman of middle age suddenlythrown into a psychological crisis. It is a novel about stories - the different ways we tell them - by writing them, in psychoanalysis, in dreams - how we tel...
Jane Lazarre's compelling novel explores America's mixed racial history through the lives of four families whose fates are intertwined across several generations from slavery to the present. Unflinching in its description of the horrors of slavery an...