East Justice

Fiction & Literature, Coming of Age, Family Life
Cover of the book East Justice by Melanie Braverman, The Permanent Press (ORD)
View on Amazon View on AbeBooks View on Kobo View on B.Depository View on eBay View on Walmart
Author: Melanie Braverman ISBN: 9781504012355
Publisher: The Permanent Press (ORD) Publication: May 12, 2015
Imprint: The Permanent Press Language: English
Author: Melanie Braverman
ISBN: 9781504012355
Publisher: The Permanent Press (ORD)
Publication: May 12, 2015
Imprint: The Permanent Press
Language: English

East Justice is a small fictional town in rural Iowa, which harbors a tiny enclave of Jewish families. Among them lives Grace, a young woman with the cauterized “tongue of a bird,” farmer, quilter, and keeper of family secrets.
 
Through a succession of lucid scenes delivered in the measured pace of true memory, Grace tells her own coming of age story in a language evocative of the rolling Midwestern landscape. What emerges is a sometimes dream-like family saga, peopled with characters both human and not: an immigrant grandmother, an absent father, an unhappy mother, a family home, a small prolific farm.
 
A novel of loss and recovery, East Justice reads like a long drive among the hills. Braverman’s richly textured prose and clear, searching eye delivers to us an American Midwest that is varied, beautiful, and dramatic for its simplicity, infusing the secret rituals of daily life with meaning and light.

View on Amazon View on AbeBooks View on Kobo View on B.Depository View on eBay View on Walmart

East Justice is a small fictional town in rural Iowa, which harbors a tiny enclave of Jewish families. Among them lives Grace, a young woman with the cauterized “tongue of a bird,” farmer, quilter, and keeper of family secrets.
 
Through a succession of lucid scenes delivered in the measured pace of true memory, Grace tells her own coming of age story in a language evocative of the rolling Midwestern landscape. What emerges is a sometimes dream-like family saga, peopled with characters both human and not: an immigrant grandmother, an absent father, an unhappy mother, a family home, a small prolific farm.
 
A novel of loss and recovery, East Justice reads like a long drive among the hills. Braverman’s richly textured prose and clear, searching eye delivers to us an American Midwest that is varied, beautiful, and dramatic for its simplicity, infusing the secret rituals of daily life with meaning and light.

More books from The Permanent Press (ORD)

Cover of the book Three Wishes for Jamie by Melanie Braverman
Cover of the book Prayerfully Sinning by Melanie Braverman
Cover of the book Change Partners by Melanie Braverman
Cover of the book Home is the Exile by Melanie Braverman
Cover of the book Exiles by Melanie Braverman
Cover of the book The Violent Child by Melanie Braverman
Cover of the book The Return of Count Electric by Melanie Braverman
Cover of the book Rolling Thunder by Melanie Braverman
Cover of the book Accomplices by Melanie Braverman
Cover of the book The Regulators by Melanie Braverman
Cover of the book Up, Down & Sideways by Melanie Braverman
Cover of the book The Kiss of the Prison Dancer by Melanie Braverman
Cover of the book My Father's Fighter by Melanie Braverman
Cover of the book Cruise Control by Melanie Braverman
Cover of the book Marginalia by Melanie Braverman
We use our own "cookies" and third party cookies to improve services and to see statistical information. By using this website, you agree to our Privacy Policy