Janet Burroway is the author of poems, plays, essays, children’s books, and nine novels including The Buzzards, Raw Silk, Opening Nights, Cutting Stone (all Notable Books of NYTBR) and the new Simone in Pieces. Her Writing Fiction is now in its tenth edition and Imaginative Writing in its fifth. She is Robert O. Lawton Distinguished Professor Emerita at the Florida State University and winner of the Florida Humanities Lifetime Achievement Award.
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A WWII refugee’s search to recover—and reconnect with—her past.
This book is stupendous. I loved it so, so much. An assemblage, fragments that bring vividly to life a woman, an era, a world—or rather many worlds—this book is a marvel and a delight.
Ayelet Waldman, author of Love and Treasure
In this brilliantly structured novel, Burroway presents the life of her heroine through the eyes of characters who come irresistibly to life and in turn bring Simone to life. Burroway writes with virtuosic authority about a life spanning more than sixty years; the result is both compelling and deeply satisfying. I would have followed Simone anywhere.Margot Livesey, author of The Road from Belhaven
…inspires students to write well.
…the bible on narrative craft.
She writes like a robust angel.
…the impact of an original.
…thrum to a work of literary art.