A Replacement Life

"A humorous and heart-wrenching story of an aspiring twenty-something Russian-Jewish writer who struggles to reconcile his immigrant roots with his fragile new American identity"--

Author: Boris Fishman
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Published: 01/20/2015
Pages: 352
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.55lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.30w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9780062287885

Review Citation(s):
New York Times Book Review 02/01/2015 pg. 24

About the Author
Fishman, Boris: -

Boris Fishman was born in Minsk, Belarus, and emigrated to the United States in 1988. He is the author of the novels A Replacement Life (which won the VCU Cabell First Novelist Award and the American Library Association's Sophie Brody Medal) and Don't Let My Baby Do Rodeo, both New York Times Notable Books of the Year, and Savage Feast, a family memoir told through recipes. His journalism has appeared in The New Yorker, the New York Times Magazine, the Washington Post, the Guardian, the Wall Street Journal, Travel + Leisure, Food & Wine, New York magazine, and many other publications. He has taught at Princeton University and the University of Montana, and now teaches at The University of Austin.