Edie Meidav, Author . Farrar, Straus & Giroux $25 (445p) ISBN 978-0-374-13075-6
Meidav embeds the reader in the mind of a narcissistic, self-loathing, obsessive, vengeful narrator—a French Nazi collaborator—whose oddly compelling voice is the achievement of this complex novel (after The Far Field
). As prefect of...
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Edie Meidav, Author Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $25 (608p) ISBN 978-0-618-01366-1
Before civil war-torn Sri Lanka became Sri Lanka, it was the British colony of Ceylon, and on this island off the coast of India Meidav focuses the ferocious, prodigious energies of her sprawling debut novel, a work that has been justly compared to...
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Edie Meidav. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $27 (448p) ISBN 978-0-374-10926-4
Meidav's third novel is a self-indulgent meditation on the grand themes of motherhood, redemption, identity, and choice. It's the 1980s, and Rose is the moth to Lana's flame. The two adventurous friends come-of-age in the shadow of Lana's father,...
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Edie Meidav. Sarabande (Consortium, dist.), $15.95 trade paper (256p) ISBN 978-1-941411-41-4
With her first collection of stories, Meidav (Lola, California) offers an uneven but charged series of character portraits. The most remarkable are of an aging "educational consultant" who ogles a young woman in a hot tub in "The King of Bubbles,"...
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