The Lost Family by Jenna Blum
The Lost Family is a charming, funny, and elegantly bittersweet study of the repercussions of loss and love that spans a generation, from the 1960s to the 1980s. It is a vivid portrait of marriage, family, and the haunting grief of World War II.
I was spellbound from the start of The Lost FamilyThe writing is so smart and empathetic . . . This is a dazzling novel of great compassion, honestly reckoning with the time-and-place-spanning ripple effect of great pain as well as love -- Laura Moriarty, New York Times best-selling author of The Chaperone
An unsentimental, richly detailed study of loss and its legacy * Kirkus Reviews *
Jenna Blum shines a powerful light on how the past swings back and how we must face it. The Lost Family is an extraordinary read, the kind of book that makes you sob and smile, the kind that gives you hope . . . It is compassionate, masterful and disturbingly contemporary -- Tatiana de Rosnay, bestselling author of Sarah’s Key
Deftly executed, deeply moving, and full of heart, Jenna Blum's The Lost Family is an evocative look at the legacy of war and how it impacts one memorable family -- Jami Attenberg, bestselling author of The Middlesteins
An unsentimental, richly detailed study of loss and its legacy * Kirkus Reviews *
Jenna Blum shines a powerful light on how the past swings back and how we must face it. The Lost Family is an extraordinary read, the kind of book that makes you sob and smile, the kind that gives you hope . . . It is compassionate, masterful and disturbingly contemporary -- Tatiana de Rosnay, bestselling author of Sarah’s Key
Deftly executed, deeply moving, and full of heart, Jenna Blum's The Lost Family is an evocative look at the legacy of war and how it impacts one memorable family -- Jami Attenberg, bestselling author of The Middlesteins
Jenna Blum is the New York Times and internationally bestselling author of novels Those Who Save Us and The Stormchasers and is one of Oprah's Top 30 Women Writers.
Jenna has been writing since she was 4 and professionally since she was 16, when she won Seventeen Magazine's National Fiction Contest with her short story 'The Legacy of Frank Finklestein'. Jenna is a graduate of Kenyon College and Boston University; and has taught fiction for 20 years for Boston's Grub Street Writers, where she currently teaches master novel workshops. Jenna divides her time between Boston and the Midwest of America.
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| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780349134635 |
| ISBN 10 | 0349134634 |
| Title | The Lost Family |
| Author | Jenna Blum |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Year published | 2018-11-08 |
| Number of pages | 432 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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