AMY BLOOM
Thursday, September 27 at 7:30 p.m.

A most welcome return is made here this evening by novelist (and practicing psychotherapist) Amy Bloom. Her extraordinary new novel, Away (Random House), is a book that takes readers and a vividly created young woman from the world of Yiddish theater in Manhattan's Lower East Side across the continent to Seattle, and from there, to the Yukon—and many other places along the way. "A wonderful novel, a cosmos that transcends its time period and grabs us without compromise. [Protagonist] Lillian's astonishing journey, driven by a mother's love, will be with me for a long, long time." - Ro Carlson. "Raunchy, funny, and touching, Away is an elegant window into the perils of self-invention and reinvention in New York in the twenties." - Caryl Phillips.

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