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to Siberia.
"I found myself wondering what
would make you go, since I'm not
myself a very physically adventur-
ometimes I see Lillian
ous person:' she says. "If you weren't
Leyb walking along Upper
Broadway, or trudging up the adventurous and you weren't at war,
what would make you go? Only love
subway stairs. She's solid-looking and
would make you take a trip like that."
pretty, dressed in a mix of hand-me-
Many novels have been written of
downs and carrying a worn satchel,
immigrant Jews in New York in the
still young but with a hard life evident
early years of the 20th century, tales
in her step.
of men and women who
In Amy Bloom's
overcame hardships as
(Random
Away
novel
they became Americans.
House; $23.95), the
Although Away begins
unforgettable Lillian
on the Lower East Side,
makes her way from
Bloom didn't want to keep
the Lower East Side
her story there because,
to Seattle and then
she explains, "This is a big
Alaska, hoping to get
country. That's not all of
to Siberia to find her
America:'
daughter. She had
Away is original and
thought Sophie was
compelling, with unexpect-
killed in the Russian
ed plot twists, an ensemble
pogrom in which
of unconventional char-
Lillian witnessed the
Author Amy B loom
acters, lyrical descriptions
murder of her parents
of the natural world and
and husband. But
moments of real tenderness.
after arriving in America alone, she
Lillian spends her first 35 days in
heard that Sophie was taken in by a
America ripping stitches out of navy
family and then later exiled to Siberia.
silk flowers until her hands are blue;
With little in her pockets, knowing
she's living with a relative and shar-
no one along the way, Lillian begins
ing a bed. Frequently, Lillian wakes
her journey. She shifts from someone
up screaming, dreaming of the last
who enjoys herring in cream sauce as
bloody night she spent with her family.
a treat to a woman who kills, skins,
Her English is limited and she
cooks and eats porcupines that cross
answers, "I attend night classes" to any
her path in the Northwest woods.
question she doesn't understand. After
In an interview in a Manhattan
she boldly asserts herself to get the
hotel while in town for her book tour,
job as seamstress for a Yiddish theater
Bloom explains that in fiction, there
company, she becomes the mistress
are two basic dramatic plots: I go on a
journey, and a stranger comes to town. of the theater's matinee idol who, it
turns out, prefers men, and also of his
Here, she uses both.
father, the grand impresario of Second
"That was what interested me',' she
Avenue. Through them, she meets
says, "the idea that just as you always
a new friend whose business card
have the potential of being the hero,
reads, "Yaakov Shimmelman/ Tailor,
you are also going to be the stranger."
Actor, Playwright/ Author of The Eyes
The author of Come to Me and A
of Love/ Pants pressed and altered."
Blind Man Can See How Much I Love
When a cousin arrives in America, she
You, Bloom also was inspired by
shares the news that Sophie is alive,
apocryphal stories she heard about
and Lillian must leave, even as she has
a woman named Lillian Ailing who
found inexplicable love and comfort.
walked from New York City to Alaska
in 1927, hoping to make her way home Yaakov provides maps and directions.

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