Anna Solomon
Anna Solomon is the author of Leaving Lucy Pear and The Little Bride and a two-time winner of the Pushcart Prize. Her short fiction and essays have appeared in publications including The New York Times Magazine, The Boston Globe, One Story, Ploughshares, Slate, and MORE. Solomon is also co-editor...
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Anna Solomon is the author of Leaving Lucy Pear and The Little Bride and a two-time winner of the Pushcart Prize. Her short fiction and essays have appeared in publications including The New York Times Magazine, The Boston Globe, One Story, Ploughshares, Slate, and MORE. Solomon is also co-editor with Eleanor Henderson of Labor Day: True Birth Stories by Today's Best Women Writers. Previously, she worked as a journalist for National Public Radio. She was born and raised in Gloucester, Massachusetts and lives in Brooklyn, NY, with her husband and two children.
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Leaving Lucy Pear, Anna Solomon, author; Rebecca Lowman, narrator This is a very interesting novel about the lives of several families beginning in 1917, when class and background were more important and one’s social standing and acceptance into society was considered quite an achievement. Three di...
#LEAVINGLUCYPEAR AVAILABLE 7/26/16 3 STARS I really had a hard time getting into this book. There were so many characters. And some of those characters would be out of the book for a while and then come back and I had to stop and think "who is this?". Also, there was a lot of cheating going on. ...
When 16-year-old Minna Losk journeys from Odessa to America as a mail-order bride, she dreams of a young, wealthy husband, a handsome townhouse, and freedom from physical labor and pogroms. But her husband Max turns out to be twice her age, rigidly Orthodox, and living in a one-room sod hut in South...
I bought this as a Christmas gift, but when I got it home and re-read the back cover, I began to have doubts that it would be a good choice for anyone on my gift list. Mail-order bride develops an attraction to her new stepson? It sounded a little bit trite, even tawdry, honestly.Thankfully, this bo...
I think the beauty with this book was this quietness over it, this stillness and contemplation that what happens happens. Which also makes this one hard book to rate, because even if I liked the story and so on I would rate it one way. But then I look at the writing and the feeling and it has to hav...
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