Spanning the length and breadth of the twentieth century, Alice Mattison's masterful In Case We're Separated looks at a family of Jewish immigrants in the 1920s and 1930s and follows the urban, emotionally turbulent lives of their children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren against a backdrop of political assassination, the Vietnam War, and the AIDS epidemic. Beginning with the title story, which introduces Bobbie Kaplowitz--a single mother in 1954 Brooklyn whose lover is married and whose understanding of life is changed by a broken kitchen appliance--Mattison displays her unparalleled gift for storytelling and for creating rich, multidimensional characters, a gift that has led the Los Angeles Times to praise her as "a writer's writer."

Author: Alice Mattison
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Published: 11/21/2006
Pages: 240
Weight: 0.42lbs
Size: 7.98h x 5.32w x 0.56d
ISBN: 9780060937898


Award: 2006 Connecticut Book Awards Winner - Fiction


Review Citation(s):
New York Times 02/04/2007 pg. 24

About the Author
Mattison, Alice: -

Alice Mattison is the award-winning author of four story collections and five novels, including Nothing Is Quite Forgotten in Brooklyn. She teaches fiction in the graduate writing program at Bennington College in Vermont and lives in New Haven, Connecticut.