The UnAmericans is a stunning debut work of fiction that exposes the deepest emotions that tie people together and break relationships apart through various twentieth century generations and across a range of locales from the United States to Israel, Soviet Russia, Hungary and the Ukraine. Her characters inner lives frequently, subtly, brilliantly reveal their social and political histories.
Beautiful, funny, fearless, exquisitely crafted, and truly novelistic in scope...It's clear we're in the hands of a master storyteller...with the emotional heft of Nicole Krauss, the intellectual depth of Saul Bellow, and the penetrating wit of Philip Roth." - Jesmyn Ward, National Book Award-winning author of Salvage the Bones
"Not since Robert Stone has a writer so examined the nature of disillusionment and the ways in which new found hope can crack the cement of failed dreams." - Adam Johnson, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Orphan Master's Son
Antopol says: "My stories move from McCarthy-era Los Angeles to modern-day Jerusalem to communist Prague. Many were inspired by my family history, notably their involvement in the Communist Party...and I grew up surrounded by tales of surveillance, tapped lines and dinnertime visits from the FBI...In terms of the Israeli stories, I've spent my entire adult life going back and forth between there and the U.S....I used to work for a Palestinian-Israeli human rights group, and at a youth village aiding immigrants from Chechnya, Ethiopia, and the former Soviet Union."
Molly Antopol was born in California and attended the University of California, Santa Cruz. She received an MFA from Columbia University and is currently a lecturer at Stanford.
Erica Bridgeman is a veteran KPFA Public Affairs Producer.
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