Rosellen Brown: 4 books
Before and After
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2005
Beautifully written, compassionate and wise, Rosellen Brown's novel is the extraordinary story of a family's struggle to survive the throes of a tragedy. Before and After centers on Carolyn and Ben Reiser and their two children, Judith and Jacob, who live comfortably in a small New England town. When...
by Rosellen Brown
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2018
The Lake on Fire is an epic narrative that begins among 19th century Jewish immigrants on a failing Wisconsin farm. Dazzled by lore of the American dream, Chaya and her strange, brilliant, young brother Asher stowaway to Chicago; what they discover there, however, is a Gilded Age as empty a façade...
by Rosellen Brown
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2014
Through the persona of Cora Fry, a wife and mother living in a small New Hampshire town, Rosellen Brown explores the ambivalent ties of love, loyalty, marriage, and family in a series of related poems. This volume includes the entire text of Cora Fry (1977), a kind of dramatic monologue, written in...
by Rosellen Brown
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2001
An unforgettable novel about race and motherhood from the bestselling author of Before and After
Once a Civil Rights activist, Miriam Vener feels trapped in the comfortable upper-middle-class life she leads with her family in Houston in the 1980s. That life suddenly shatters with the appearance,...