NAMED ONE OF THE 40 NEW BOOKS FOR SUMMER READING 2021 BY THE MILWAUKEE JOURNAL SENTINEL A riveting debut novel from an unforgettable new voice that is literary, suspenseful, and a compelling story about identity and how you define "home".
Find her online at zhannaslor.com and on Twitter at @SlorZhanna.
She and her husband, saxophonist for Jazz-Rock fusion band Marbin, recently relocated from Chicago to Milwaukee, where, besides writing, she is raising her daughter.
She has a master\'s degree in Writing and Publishing from DePaul University, and has been published in many literary magazines, including Ninth Letter, Bellevue Literary Review, Tusculum Review, Midwestern Gothic, Another Chicago Magazine, and five times in Michigan Quarterly Review, one of which received an honorary mention in Best American Essays 2014.
About author(s): Zhanna Slor was born in the former Soviet Union and moved to the Midwest in the early 1990s.
What she finds in her search for Anna will change her life, and her family, forever.
In her former home, Masha immerses herself in her sister\'s life--which forces her to recall the life she, too, had Left behind, and to confront her own demons.
When Anna disappears without a trace, Masha\'s father calls her back to Milwaukee to help find Anna.
Masha lives in Israel, where she went on Birthright and unexpectedly found home.
At the same time, a handsome grifter comes into her life, luring her with the prospect of a nomadic lifestyle.
But her desperate need to connect with her homeland convinces her to pursue the connection.
When she\'s contacted online by a stranger from their homeland--a girl claiming to be her long lost sister--Anna suspects a ruse or an attempt at extortion.
She is eager to have a life beyond the heartland.
In 2008, college student Anna feels stuck in Milwaukee, with no real connections and parents who stifle her artistic talents.
When Anna is contacted by a stranger from their homeland and then disappears, Masha is called home to Milwaukee to find her.
Anna was just an infant when her family fled, but yearns to find her roots.
Masha remembers her childhood in the former USSR, but found her life and heart in Israel.
NAMED ONE OF THE 40 NEW BOOKS FOR SUMMER READING 2021 BY THE MILWAUKEE JOURNAL SENTINEL A riveting debut novel from an unforgettable new voice that is literary, suspenseful, and a compelling story about identity and how you define "home"
