{"product_id":"no-one-is-here-except-all-of-us-isbn-9781594486494","title":"No One is Here Except All of Us","description":"\u003cb\u003eFrom the award-winning author of \u003ci\u003eSons and Daughters of Ease and Plenty \u003c\/i\u003eand the new story collection, \u003ci\u003eAwayland\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 1939, the families in a remote Jewish village in Romania feel the  war close in on them. Their tribe has moved and escaped for thousands  of years- across oceans, deserts, and mountains-but now, it seems,  there is nowhere else to go. Danger is imminent in every direction, yet  the territory of imagination and belief is limitless. At the suggestion  of an eleven-year-old girl and a mysterious stranger who has washed up  on the riverbank, the villagers decide to reinvent the world: deny any  relationship with the known and start over from scratch. Destiny is  unwritten. Time and history are forgotten. Jobs, husbands, a child, are  reassigned. And for years, there is boundless hope. But the real world  continues to unfold alongside the imagined one, eventually overtaking  it, and soon our narrator-the girl, grown into a young mother-must flee  her village, move from one world to the next, to find her husband and  save her children, and propel them toward a real and hopeful future. A  beguiling, imaginative, inspiring story about the bigness of being  alive as an individual, as a member of a tribe, and as a participant in  history, \u003ci\u003eNo One Is Here Except All Of Us\u003c\/i\u003e explores how we use  storytelling to survive and shape our own truths. It marks the arrival  of a major new literary talent.“Fantastical and ambitious . . . infused with faith in the power of storytelling . . . Light and tenderness persevere—in a shining moon, in a candle still aglow, in a mother’s embrace of her child.”—\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"An absorbing and unpredictable novel that manages to encompass a wide geographic and emotional range. . . . Ausubel's original voice combines fresh, clear observation and Old testament grandeur.\"—\u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Debut novelist Ausubel casts a vibrant, dreamlike spell in this tale of a remote Romanian Village whose citizens try to save themselves from the Holocaust by reinventing their own history.”—\u003ci\u003eMarie Claire\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“Romanian Jews in 1939 reinvent their own reality in this inspiring novel about the power of community and imagination.”—\u003ci\u003eO, the Oprah Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“Ramona Ausubel’s debut, \u003ci\u003eNo One Is Here Except All of Us \u003c\/i\u003ecaptures the magical group-think of a Romanian village that retreats into an imaginary reality at the outbreak of war.”—\u003ci\u003eVogue\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eNo One Is Here Except All of Us\u003c\/i\u003e contains so many achingly beautiful passages, it's as if language itself is continually striving to be a refuge. . . . If a book can be said to have a consciousness, the consciousness here is infinitely tender and soulful, magical and true. It's the kind of God we wish for.”—\u003ci\u003eSan Francisco Chronicle\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Ramona Ausubel's first novel, \"No One Is Here Except All of Us,\" is a poetic fable about a part of history after which some people say poetry is an obscenity… Ausubel's fable-like tone is effective in creating a sensation of tale and dream. For conveying the full horror of the events surrounding the Holocaust, it is less so, but this isn't what she's trying to do. Instead, she is comfortable reshaping, in a safe time and place, stories that were handed to her, using her rhetorical and narrative skill to create something that can be carried without cutting the one who carries it.”—\u003ci\u003eMinneapolis Star Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“In her debut novel, \u003ci\u003eNo One Is Here Except All of Us\u003c\/i\u003e, Ramona Ausubel breaks new ground, with a unique prose style that weaves a classic immigrant tale into a world of dreams. The town of Zalischick and its citizens re-write their own story, filling it with magic, hope, and a determination in the face of destruction to find new ways to begin.”—Hannah Tinti, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Good Thief\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\"Here is a world created out of the most curious and beautiful remnants of our own: opera, suitcases, letters, rivers, daughters, strangers and shovels. Ramona Ausubel cracks open the very idea of a book and fills its shell with a thing glimmering, thrilling and new.”—Samantha Hunt, author on \u003ci\u003eThe Invention of Everything Else\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A special work of the imagination, an original gift, dark and light, and Ramona Ausubel colors it all with a glowing wisdom.”—Ron Carlson, author of \u003ci\u003eFive Skies\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Beautifully written and alive in story, fascinating characters, and place.  You can't help but compare Ausubel's book with Marquez, with her fantastic vision of history and invention, the small village dreaming the vast world, but she is her own new fresh voice.”—Brad Watson, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Heaven of Mercury\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A wise, compassionate book that even in its darkest turns uplifts.”—Christine Schutt, author of \u003ci\u003eFlorida\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eAll Souls\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eRamona Ausubel\u003c\/b\u003e is a graduate of the MFA program at the University of California, Irvine. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eAwayland\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSons and Daughters of Ease and Plenty\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eNo One Is Here Except All of Us\u003c\/i\u003e. Her work has been published in \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eOne Story\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Paris Review Daily\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBest American Fantasy\u003c\/i\u003e, and elsewhere, and has received special mentions in \u003ci\u003eThe Best American Short Stories \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Best American Nonrequired Reading\u003c\/i\u003e. She has been longlisted for The Frank O'Connor Short Story Prize, and a finalist for the New York Public Library Young Lions award and the Pushcart Prize.","brand":"Riverhead Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46300887449829,"sku":"NP9781594486494","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781594486494.jpg?v=1767733817","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/no-one-is-here-except-all-of-us-isbn-9781594486494","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}