The UnAmericans

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Molly Antopol
9780007548811

The UnAmericans who people this set of stories find themselves in Prague, in Belarus, in Tel Aviv—and in the postwar United States, when the House Un-American Activities Committee persecuted suspected communists. Nearly every character in this collection is a person of divided allegiance—immigrants, or children and grandchildren of immigrants, who find themselves between cultures, whatever those cultures may be. This is Antopol’s debut—she was recently a recipient of the “5 Under 35 Award” from the National Book Foundation — and yet she crafts her work with striking emotional maturity and with a compelling breadth of imagination.