The Unamericans (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780393241136)

An absentee father, a former dissident from communist-era Prague, needles his adult daughter for details about her newly commissioned play when he fears it will cast him in an unflattering light. An actor, imprisoned during the Red Scare for playing up his communist leanings to get a part with a leftist film director, is shamed by his act when he reunites with his precocious young son. An Israeli soldier, forced to defend a settlement filled with American religious families, still pines for a chance to discover the United States for himself. A young Israeli journalist, left unemployed after America's most recent economic crash, questions her life path when she begins dating a middle-aged widower still in mourning for his wife. And in the book's final story, a tour de force spanning three continents and three generations of women, a young American and her Israeli husband are forced to reconsider their marriage after the death of her dissident art-collecting grandmother.

Again and again, Molly Antopol's deeply sympathetic characters struggle for footing in an uncertain world, hounded by forces beyond their control. Their voices are intimate and powerful and they resonate with searing beauty. Antopol is a superb young talent, and The UnAmericans will long be remembered for its wit, humanity, and heart.

Author: Molly Antopol
ISBN-10: 0393241130
ISBN-13: 9780393241136
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Language: English
Published: 02/03/2014
Pages: 261
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.94lbs
Size: 8.49h x 5.83w x 0.95d
Award: National Book Awards - Nominee
Award: National Jewish Book Award - Finalist
Award: National Jewish Book Award - Finalist
Award: Discover Great New Writers - Second Place
Award: Sami Rohr Prize - Finalist

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal Prepub Alert 09/01/2013 pg. 84
Publishers Weekly 10/14/2013
Library Journal 11/15/2013 pg. 88
Kirkus Reviews 12/01/2013
Booklist 12/15/2013 pg. 20
Entertainment Weekly 02/21/2014 pg. 70
New Yorker (The) 03/10/2014 pg. 77
New York Times Book Review 03/23/2014 pg. 9
Library Journal 09/01/2013