NORA EISENBERG's
"The War At Home"

A reading and signing.
August 1, Monday, 7:30,
Barnes & Noble, 2289 Broadway at 82nd St., NYC

Nora Eisenberg will be reading from her critically acclaimed novel. The novel focuses on a working-class leftist Bronx family, after World War II. Ragged from years at war, the protagonist's father returns home only to wage a new war--on the domestic front. Wife and children now are the enemy. The novel shows the toll of violence and a range of effects from retreat to resistance. The spirited voice, compelling characters and events, and a sparkling mix of pathos and humor have earned it wide critical praise.

"Remarkable, poignant, and unforgettable"
--starred review Library Journal

"Nora Eisenberg writes about the aftermath of war with remarkable insight and thrillingly well-crafted prose. The War at Home is a brilliant novel."
--Robert Olen Butler

"Nora Eisenberg's engaging debut novel takes place in the years after the heroine's father has returned from World War II only to ravage his own family. Eisenberg's "memoir-novel" recounts the savagery that family members can and do dole out to one another-- With her spiky, keening prose, Eisenberg depicts the world from a child's point of view, deftly mixing nostalgia and knock-kneed vulnerability."
-- The Washington Post Book World, March 3, 2002

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