The Force of Things: A Marriage in War and Peace

A literary exploration of the intersections of family, history and memory traces the stormy relationship between the author's mother and celebrated Italian journalist Ugo Stille, exploring how their bond was influenced by respective experiences in czarist Russia and the American Midwest as well as disparate religious beliefs and the mass migration of Jewish refugees from Europe. By the author of Excellent Cadavers. 15,000 first printing.