Anna Solomon is the author of Leaving Lucy Pear and The Book of V. She is a two-time winner of the Pushcart Prize. Her short fiction and essays have appeared in publications including The New York Times Magazine, One Story, Ploughshares, Slate, andMORE. Coeditor with Eleanor Henderson of Labor Day: True Birth Stories by Today’s Best Women Writers, Solomon previously worked as a journalist for National Public Radio. She was born and raised in Gloucester, Massachusetts, and lives in Brooklyn, New York, with her husband and two children.
“An epic immigrant tale set on the Dakota prairie. . . . In this
mythic rendition of the American immigrant narrative, Solomon's
quirky prose finds the wondrous in the ordinary and vividly depicts
the complex collisions between the old and new
world.” —More
“In her emotionally honest debut novel, The Little Bride, Anna
Solomon draws on an 1880s U.S. homesteading movement called Am
Olam. Jewish newcomers were encouraged to settle out west as
pioneers. The result wasn't some cheerful ‘little shtetl on the
prairie,’ as Solomon's heroine discovers. Impoverished Minna Losk
is a 16-year-old Jewish mail- order bride from Odessa and one of
the more realistic pioneers depicted in recent historical fiction.
Suffering hasn't hewn her into a plucky stereotype. Instead, she is
someone the reader instantly empathizes with. She wants love, and
ends up with a husband twice her age. She craves comfort, and ends
up in a South Dakota one-room sod hut. A fascinating if sometimes
bleak page turner.” —USA Today
“An engrossing slice of history. . . . The Little
Bride offers a precious glimpse of the wondrously strange
story of Jewish immigration evoked by Anna Solomon in her debut
novel. Like other talented young Jewish-American novelists Jonathan
Safran Foer and Dara Horn, Solomon fruitfully imagines faraway
times and climes in The Little Bride—Europe's Odessa and America's
Dakota Territory in the late 19th century, specifically—and creates
a winning 16-year-old heroine in Minna Losk. . . . [A] moving
debut.” —The Miami Herald
“Minna is a terrifically complex heroine: a little snobby, a little
selfish and wholly sympathetic.” —The New York Times
“This is a very intensely imagined book, an elegantly written
pocket of forgotten history.” —Audrey Niffenegger, author of the
New York Times–bestselling The Time Traveler’s Wife and Her Fearful
Symmetry
“Evocative of Alice Munro, Amy Bloom, and Willa Cather, but fueled
by Anna Solomon’s singular imagination, The Little Bride is a
masterful debut. This tale of a Jewish mail-order bride’s
homestead experience on the Great Plains is embroidered with sage,
beautiful writing on every page and marks the start of a long,
fine, and important career.” —Jenna Blum, author of Those Who Save
Us
“The Little Bride is a love story. An immigrant’s story. But
most important: a story of hope and courage in the face of
overwhelming odds. Anna Solomon has written a
heart-wrenchingly good novel, with vivid characters and an epic
frontier landscape that will haunt you long after you've turned the
final page.” —Hannah Tinti, author of The Good Thief
“Anna Solomon has created a singular heroine whose story of dashed
dreams and eventual triumph is a wise and timeless wonder. Intense
and gorgeous, The Little Bride gives us an unparalleled
snapshot of the West.” —Jennifer Gilmore, author of Golden Country
and Something Red
“A lush, gorgeous first novel. Immerse yourself in its world.”
—Irina Reyn, author of What Happened to Anna K.
“An affecting tale of 19th century Jewish settlers who find
their America not on the noisy streets of the Lower East Side, but
on the boundless, desolate Dakota Plains. A stirring love story and
an unsettling, original portrait of the New World.” —Sana Krasikov,
author of One More Year
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