The UnAmericans Stories [Hardcover]

An absentee father, a former dissident from communist-era Prague, needles his adult daughter for details about her newly commissioned play when he fears it will cast him in an unflattering light. An actor, imprisoned during the Red Scare for playing up his communist leanings to get a part with a leftist film director, is shamed by his act when he reunites with his precocious young son. An Israeli soldier, forced to defend a settlement filled with American religious families, still pines for a chance to discover the United States for himself. A young Israeli journalist, left unemployed after Americas most recent economic crash, questions her life path when she begins dating a middle-aged widower still in mourning for his wife. And in the books final story, a tour de force spanning three continents and three generations of women, a young American and her Israeli husband are forced to reconsider their marriage after the death of her dissident art-collecting grandmother.Fresh and offbeat& memorable and promising.A writer of seismic talent&Not since Robert Stone has a writer so examined the nature of disillusionment and the ways in which newfound hope can crack the cement of failed dreams.Beautiful, funny, fearless, exquisitely crafted, and truly novelistic in scope&It's clear?we're in the hands of a master storytellera writer with the emotional heft of Nicole Krauss, the intellectual depth of Saul Bellow, and the penetrating wit of Philip Roth. This book isnt simply powerful and importantit's necessary.Molly Antopol's stories display that wonderful combination of an original voice with settings that are masterfully rendered. A rich collection, a great read.A brave, generous, and effortlessly smart story collection by a young writer with talent to burn.This is deeply humane fiction, coursing with the heat of a passionate, sympathetic heart.Allegiances are not always what they seem, in these wonderfully engrossing stories of Old- and New-World Jews cast lsÏ