Panoramic in scope, Away is the epic and intimate story of young
Lillian Leyb, a dangerous innocent, an accidental heroine. When her
family is destroyed in a Russian pogrom, Lillian comes to America alone,
determined to make her way in a new land. When word comes that her
daughter, Sophie, might still be alive, Lillian embarks on an odyssey
that takes her from the world of the Yiddish theater on New York's Lower
East Side, to Seattle's Jazz District, and up to Alaska, along the
fabled Telegraph Trail toward Siberia. All of the qualities readers love
in Amy Bloom's work-her humor and wit, her elegant and irreverent
language, her unflinching understanding of passion and the human
heart-come together in the embrace of this brilliant novel, which is at
once heartbreaking, romantic, and completely unforgettable.