My Life as a Silent Movie

After losing her husband and daughter in an auto accident, 42-year-old Emma flies to Paris, discovers she has a twin brother whose existence she had not known about, and learns that her birth parents weren't the Americans who raised her, but a White Russian film star of the 1920s and a French Stalinist. A story about identity and the shaping function of art, My Life as a Silent Movie presents a vividly rendered world and poses provocative questions on the relationship of art to life.

Author: Jesse Lee Kercheval
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 09/13/2013
Pages: 220
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 8.96h x 6.12w x 0.53d
ISBN: 9780253010247

Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 08/01/2013
Library Journal 09/01/2013 pg. 102

About the Author

Jesse Lee Kercheval is author of 12 books including Brazil, winner of the Ruthanne Wiley Memorial Novella Award; the poetry collection Cinema Muto, winner of the Crab Orchard Open Selection Award; and The Alice Stories, winner of the Prairie Schooner Fiction Book Prize. She teaches in the creative writing program at the University of Wisconsin.