FICTION

American Stranger

by David Plante
Delphinium. Jan. 2018. 256p. ISBN 9781883285739. $24.95; ebk. ISBN 9781504050128. F
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Nancy Green, the daughter of German Jews who escaped Hitler, is trying to find meaning in her life. A graduate student in Boston, she meets Aaron Cohen, who is escaping his Hasidic heritage by becoming a monk. Her next love, Yvon Gendreau, is a young man of Franco-American background whose family history goes back to a time before the British came to America. When Yvon disappears, Nancy marries Tim Arbib, a Jewish refugee from Alexandria, Egypt, who lives in London. After her marriage fails, Nancy returns to New York still trying to make sense of her life and the lives of the men who have moved her.
VERDICT Plante, whose novel Family was nominated for the National Book Award, is himself of Franco-American descent. He manages to capture the sense of disconnectedness that Nancy and her male friends experience as each struggles to define his or her identity in this riveting novel of wandering souls.
Reviewed by Andrea Kempf, formerly with Johnson Cty. Community Coll. Lib., Overland Park, KS , Dec 08, 2017
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