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NEXT TO LOVE

Ellen Feldman

Perfect for readers of Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrow's Guernsey Literary and PotatoPeel Pie Society and Jamie Ford's At the Corner of Bitter and Sweet, this is commercial literary fiction at its best.

NEXT TO LOVE opens on D-Day, June 6, 1944 when Millie and Grace, both young mothers, learn their husbands were killed at Omaha Beach. Their friend Babe is the only one whose husband returns home, but all three women carry the burden of that fateful day: Grace chooses to make a shrine to her beloved, while Millie determines to move on, and Babe struggles to keep her marriage together.

Feldman, a 2009 Guggenheim fellow, is the author of Scottsboro (Norton, 2008), shortlisted last year for the Orange Prize. The San Francisco Chronicle praised Scottsboro, calling it "inspired and inspiring Ruby [a character] belongs with the best of William Faulkner's or Alice Walker's women." She is also the author of The Boy Who Loved Anne Frank (2006), and Lucy (2004) both of which were also published by Norton to enormous critical acclaim (see the author's website www.ellenfeldman.com). She lectures extensively around the country and England.

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Book Published 2011-09-01 by Spiegel & Grau
Book Published 2011-09-01 by Spiegel & Grau

Comments

Haunting and profoundly moving At turns brave, frustrating, and fragile, Feldman's characters live and love with breathtaking intensity, and her deft juggling of several zigzagging plots makes the pages flow past with the force of a slow but mighty river.

A lustrous evocation of a stormy period in our past; highly recommended for lovers of World War II fiction.

An honest American experience of the aftermath of World War II rendered in sharp detail and full of pathos, Next to Love tells us what we hate to acknowledge that personal battles don't end with the armistice. There is the touch of Everywoman here.

A powerful, haunting, deeply ambitious novel about love and war, impeccably executed, impossible to put down.

Next to Love is a remarkable novel driven by the powerful engine of most great literature: the yearning for a self. These three deeply, compassionately evoked women seek their own individual identities as the world and the people they love undergo profound change. But they have each other and they have their capacity to love, and Ellen Feldman brilliantly shows us how those things prevail.