Panoramic in scope, Away is the epic and intimate
story of young Lillian Leyb, a dangerous innocent, an
accidental heroine. When her family is destroyed in a
Russian pogrom, Lillian comes to America alone, determined
to make her way in a new land. When word comes that her
daughter, Sophie, might still be alive, Lillian embarks on
an odyssey that takes her from the world of the Yiddish
theater on New York’s Lower East Side, to Seattle’s Jazz
District, and up to Alaska, along the fabled Telegraph
Trail toward Siberia. All of the qualities readers love in
Amy Bloom’s work–her humor and wit, her elegant and
irreverent language, her unflinching understanding of
passion and the human heart–come together in the embrace
of this brilliant novel, which is at once heartbreaking,
romantic, and completely unforgettable.
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