Look for the collection of short stories, Where the God of Love Hangs Out, in bookstores. Published in January 2010 by Random House.

AWAY Paperback #1 on the LA Times Best Seller List (August 4, 2008)

Nominated for Book Sense Book of the Year
Kansas City Star – Top 100 Books of the Year
Washington Post – Best Fiction of 2007
LA Times – Favorite Fiction of 2007
Cleveland Plain Dealer – Best Books of 2007
Concord Monitor – Favorite Fiction of 2007
Denver Post – Holiday Book pick
Chattanooga Press – Holiday Book pick
Boston Globe – holiday Book pick
Rocky Mountain News – Favorite Fiction of 2007
Chicago Tribune – Best of 2007
Newsday – Favorites of 2007
American Library Association- Notable Book

In their annual “Our Favorite Books” column, the editors of the Chicago Tribune have chosen Away as part of their “Exile on Main Street” selections.

The LA Times chose “Away” as one of its ten best books of 2007:

A refugee from the Russian pogroms crosses North America in the 1920s in search of her lost daughter in a novel that combines an immigrant’s tale with the road novel, the love story and the ghost story, rich in “finely wrought prose, vivid characters, delectable details.”