Away

Written by:
Amy Bloom
Narrated by:
Barbara Rosenblat

Unabridged Audiobook

Ratings
Book
6
Narrator
1
Release Date
November 2009
Duration
8 hours 2 minutes
Summary
Moll Flanders in America, this epic, intimate novel follows a young Russian immigrant determined to make her way-and find her daughter-in the hip, harsh 1920s.

On a morning in 1924, a young woman rises from the floor of her family's small home in Belorussia to find her parents and her husband slaughtered beside her and her infant daughter, Sophie, missing. When her aunt tells her the baby is dead, Lillian emigrates to America. She is working as a seamstress at the Yiddish Theater and enjoying cafe society when a cousin arrives and insists that her daughter is still alive-in Siberia.

Lillian cannot stop dreaming of Sophie; she feels she must get to Russia, yet she can't afford the passage. Her only friend, an actor turned tailor, steals atlases from the New York Public Library and sews them into an overcoat for her. She crosses North America by rail, truck, and foot, encountering drifters, wardens, pimps, missionaries, and tattoo artists. From Dawson City, Alaska, she sets sail for Russia. She falls in love, falls in with the wrong people, leaps before she looks, hopes hard, and refuses to give up.

Inspired by a true story, Away is Moll Flanders in America and Odysseus in the Jazz Age: big, wide, brilliantly imagined, unexpectedly funny, and unforgettable.
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AWAY is a good book, made even better by the narration of Barbara Rosenblatt. The overview is a very accurate summation of the story. For the first half of Disk 1 , I thought the story rambled on and kept jumping from present to future to past too much, but keep on listening, everything comes into place and the story is marvelous! I loved it and will buy it.

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