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Reviews
Summary doesn't do justice to this compact epic's richness of episode and characterization, nor to the exemplary skill with which Bloom increases her story's resonance through dramatic foreshadowing of what lies ahead . . . .Echoes of Ragtime, Cold Mountain and Irving Howe's World of Our Fathers, in an amazingly dense, impressively original novel.
—Kirkus Reviews (starred)
"Amy Bloom gets more meaning into individual sentences than most authors manage in whole books."—New Yorker
"Any new book by Amy Bloom is a cause for celebration."— The Times (London)
"Away is a modest name for a book as gloriously transporting as Amy Bloom's new novel. Alive with incident and unforgettable characters, it sparkles and illuminates as brilliantly as it entertains."
—Janet Maslin, New York Times
"...reads like dry wood bursting into flame: desperate and impassioned, erotic and moving—absolutely hypnotic. [W]hat begins as a paean to the immigrant spirit in a city of millions is ultimately a gasp of wonder at the persistence of love, even in the remotest spot on earth."
—The Washington Post
"The pleasures of Away are the ordinary pleasures of extraordinary novels: finely wrought prose, vivid characters, delectable details."
—The Los Angeles Times
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