Moll Flanders in America, this epic, intimate novel follows a young Russian immigrant determined to make her way—and find her daughter—in the hip, harsh 1920s. On a morning in 1924, a young woman rises from the floor of he...

"My father's wife died. My mother said we should drive down to his place and see what might be in it for us."So begins this remarkable novel by Amy Bloom, whose critically acclaimed Away was called "a literary triumph&q...