Description: In this dark and powerful work, Clara Sverdlow--the daughter of a former Russian political prisoner at Auschwitz--works to address the past and confront her present situation before it's too late.
Brief description: KAYLIE JONES has published seven books, including a memoir, Lies My Mother Never Told Me, and her most recent novel, The Anger Meridian. Her novel A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries was adapted as a Merchant Ivory film in 1998. Jones has been teaching for more than twenty-five years, and is a faculty member in the Stony Brook Southampton MFA in Creative Writing & Literature program and in Wilkes University's MFA in Creative Writing program. She is the author of Speak Now and the editor of Long Island Noir. Her newest endeavor is her publishing imprint with Akashic Books, Kaylie Jones Books.
Review Quotes: Suspenseful . . . Jones writes with compassionate intensity and terse conviction.
-- "New York Press"