Archive for December 3, 2010
THE LAST RIVER CHILD by Lori Ann Bloomfield
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“Through her letters she had become the voice of this land and this sky, of all that was here and was good. He had marched into battle with her summer-scented letters in his breast pocket. Long after he had forgotten what he was fighting for, her words had been his compass point, unwavering [...]
December 3, 2010
Tags: 1910s, 20th-Century, Historical, Ontario, Second Story Press Posted in: Canada, Coming-of-Age, Debut Novel, Family Matters, Small Town, Time Period Fiction 
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WHITE SPACE BETWEEN by Ami Sands Brodoff
mi Sands Brodoff opens with an epigraph from Rabbi Avi Weiss: “The Torah is written ‘black fire on white fire’ . . . black fire refers to the letters of the Torah . . . the white refers to the spaces between the letters . . . they are the story, the song, the silence.” Exploring the story, singing the song, reflecting on the silence, these are the promises of this intimate yet ambitious novel, and they are both moving and beautiful. To say that Brodoff does not quite realize them is not to diminish the value of her search. The book is a sincere and obviously personal attempt to illuminate mysteries that may ultimately remain unknowable.
December 3, 2010
Tags: Around-the-World, Contemporary, Holocaust, Montreal, Second Story Press Posted in: Award Winning Author, Canada, Contemporary, Job, World Literature No Comments
