Laura Z Hobson: 6 books

In Laura Z. Hobson’s debut novel, a well-to-do Austrian family, exiled in Switzerland in the early years of World War II, struggles to survive on the charity of an American socialite As World War II rips through Europe, the Vederles have found themselves in an impossible situation. In temporary...

Two Russian socialists emigrate to the United States and begin the long process of becoming American in this novel by a #1 New York Times–bestselling author. Stefan and Alexandra Ivarin emigrated to America at the end of the nineteenth century. Russian Jewish socialists, the Ivarins are now...

**When a reporter pretends to be Jewish, he experiences anti-Semitism firsthand in the New York Times bestseller and basis for the Academy Award–winning film.   Journalist Philip Green has just moved to New York City from California when the Third Reich falls. To mark this moment...

A struggling author’s unexpected success sparks a family conflict in this New York Times–bestselling novel by the author of Gentleman’s Agreement.   For most of his career as a novelist, Gregory Johns has toiled in relative obscurity. His books have sold modestly, and he lives...

In the shifting social landscape of America in the 1960s, a mother struggles to understand—and accept—her son’s homosexuality Tessa Lynn considers herself independent and progressive, a liberated woman of the 1960s. And yet, when she receives a letter from her youngest son, Jeff, informing...

A novel of midlife motherhood and the basis for the TV movie starring Carol Burnett—from the #1 New York Times–bestselling author of Gentleman’s Agreement.   Dori Gray—married, then divorced, age forty, professional journalist—had given up hope of a child. A botched abortion...