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.
Dazzling New Historical Fiction… In a series of slyly eloquent chapters that follow Simone Lerrante from childhood into her 60s, we see her through the refracting context of the people she meets…
The New York Times
[T]he reason it works so well is that it hits the reader, and it hits hard.Brendan Tynan Buck, Newcity Lit
As Simone creates collages from fragments of photographs, this novel delivers similar aesthetic surprise and satisfaction.
Publishers Weekly
…inspires students to write well.
…the bible on narrative craft.
She writes like a robust angel.
…thrum to a work of literary art.