American Music (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780307473974)

The celebrated author of I Was Amelia Earhart brings us a brilliant, kaleidoscopic story of human connection that soars with imagination, spirit, and Mendelsohn's distinctive mesmerizing style.

Honor is a physical therapist with a mysterious patient in Milo, the Iraq war veteran whose destroyed back is the only testament to his emotional scars. When Honor touches him, she and Milo are overwhelmed by startling visions of the past: Of 1930s New York, where a young marriage is tested by the arrival of an intriguing cousin; of a female photographer whose life's work is irrevocably stolen; of a young mother determined to make it on her own; and of 17th-century Turkey, where the forbidden love affair of a eunuch and the sultan's concubine threatens a tragic end. As the stories converge in a crescendo of revelations, they bring Honor and Milo closer to healing and understanding. A breathtaking mystery and meditation on love, American Music is a compassionate and wondrous novel.

Author: Jane Mendelsohn
ISBN-10: 030747397X
ISBN-13: 9780307473974
Publisher: Vintage
Language: English
Published: 06/14/2011
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.20w x 0.60d

Review Citation(s):
New York Times Book Review 07/24/2011 pg. 24