In Case We're Separated: Connected Stories

Spanning the length and breadth of the twentieth century, Alice Mattison's masterful In Case We're Separated looks at a family of Jewish immigrants in the 1920s and 1930s and follows the urban, emotionally turbulent lives of their children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren against a backdrop of political assassination, the Vietnam War, and the AIDS epidemic. Beginning with the title story, which introduces Bobbie Kaplowitz--a single mother in 1954 Brooklyn whose lover is married and whose understanding of life is changed by a broken kitchen appliance--Mattison displays her unparalleled gift for storytelling and for creating rich, multidimensional characters, a gift that has led the Los Angeles Times to praise her as "a writer's writer."

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Published: 11/21/2006
ISBN: 9780060937898
Pages: 240
Weight: 0.42lbs
Size: 7.98h x 5.32w x 0.56d
Award: Connecticut Book Awards - Winner

Review Citations: New York Times 02/04/2007 pg. 24