The Takeaway Men
A Novel
Format:Paperback
Publisher:SparkPress
Published:4th Aug '20
Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back
AUTHOR HIRED: Crystal Patriarche, BookSparks:
For a $20,000/220 hour campaign: • National print, broadcast, and online media campaign • Local print, broadcast, and online media campaign • Widespread Galley distribution to national, local, and niche markets • Targeted trade media campaign for reviews and spotlights • Digital marketing campaign including blog tour • Branded graphics package including print collateral, social media graphics, email and newsletter banners • Early reviewer promotions on Goodreads option • Strategy to position author as an expert • Book or event tour
Twin sisters Bronka and JoJo Lubinski are brought to America from Germany by their Polish refugee parents after World War II—but in “idyllic” America, political, cultural, and family turmoil awaits them. As the girls grow older, they eventually begin to ask questions of and demand the truth from their parents.With the cloud of the Holocaust still looming over them, twin sisters Bronka and Johanna Lubinski and their parents arrive in the US from a Displaced Persons Camp. In the years after World War II, they experience the difficulties of adjusting to American culture as well as the burgeoning fear of the Cold War. Years later, the discovery of a former Nazi hiding in their community brings the Holocaust out of the shadows. As the girls get older, they start to wonder about their parents' pasts, and they begin to demand answers. But it soon becomes clear that those memories will be more difficult and painful to uncover than they could have anticipated. Poignant and haunting, The Takeaway Men explores the impact of immigration, identity, prejudice, secrets, and lies on parents and children in mid-twentieth-century America.
2020 Best Book Awards Winner in Fiction: Historical
2020 American Fiction Awards: Winner in Historical Fiction
2020 Canadian Book Club Awards Winner in Fiction
“17 Books to Read Before the End of Summer”—Buzzfeed
“The author’s tale is sensitively composed, a thoughtful exploration into the perennially thorny issues of religious identity, assimilation, and the legacy of suffering.”
—Kirkus Reviews
“Ain builds a layered world of many different characters to create a complex, difficult, and well-researched novel around the identity of the Jewish community following the Holocaust and the problems and debates it faced.”
—Booklist
“A wise and sensitive work of historical fiction...ties in many themes: stories of Righteous Gentiles, a suspected Nazi living in the neighborhood under a new identity and working in a kosher deli, the stigma then of mental illness, questions of defining Jewish identity and reacting to evil, and the popular culture of the ’50s.”
—The Jewish Week
“All too often, books focus on what happens to people persecuted by the Nazis during the war, but I rarely find a novel that tells the story of what happens to a family after liberation . . . I would definitely recommend this book to anyone who loves historical fiction…”
—Readers’ Favorite, 5 Star Review
“At a time when the darkness of the Holocaust is being whitewashed, Meryl Ain’s remarkable debut novel illuminates the postwar Jewish American landscape like a truth-seeking torch. An emotionally rich and lovingly told saga of survivors, with great sensitivity to what was lost, buried, and resurrected.”
—Thane Rosenbaum, author of The Golems of Gotham, Second Hand Smoke, and Elijah Visible
“In The Takeaway Men, Meryl Ain tells a gripping story of lives intertwined and shaped by the horrors of the Holocaust and its aftermath. With sensitivity and compassion she makes her characters come alive and remain in our heads and our hearts long after the novel ends. A powerful read!”
—Francine Klagsbrun, author of Lioness: Golda Meir and the Nation of Israel
“An exceptional and vibrant first novel . . . a portrait of the power of love and the ability of family to embrace and heal.”
—TBR News Media
ISBN: 9781684630479
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264 pages