Ramona Ausubel. Riverhead, $26.95 (336p) ISBN 978-1-59448-794-1
Ausubel’s debut novel about survival and storytelling begins in 1939 as nine Jewish families that make up the northern Romanian village of Zalischik decide—as war threatens to consume all of Europe—to “start over” by retreating into an imaginary,...
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Ramona Ausubel. Riverhead, $26.95 (208p) ISBN 978-1-59448-795-8
Ausubel follows up her debut novel, No One is Here Except All of Us, with a charming, at times precious collection of stories that tackles the frustrations and fantasies of being alive. Split into four parts—birth, gestation, conception, and love—the
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Ramona Ausubel. Riverhead, $27 (320p) ISBN 978-1-59463-488-8
The 1970s and ’60s are reexamined in Ausubel’s second novel, which takes place largely in the American bicentennial year of 1976. Coming from moneyed backgrounds, married couple Edgar and Fern Keating react in a surprising fashion to their impending
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Ramona Ausubel. Riverhead, $26 (240p) ISBN 978-1-59463-490-1
Everyday worries about pregnancy, mortality, and parents are given fantastical treatment in these playful stories by Ausubel (Sons and Daughters of Ease and Plenty). A cyclops builds an online dating profile, a chef joins a journey to Mars, Egyptian
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Ramona Ausubel. Riverhead, $27 (288p) ISBN 978-0-593-42052-2
The Ice Age meets the Anthropocene in this gem from Ausubel (Sons and Daughters of Ease and Plenty), centered on a scientist’s improbable attempt to revive an extinct species. A research trip brings Jane, a recently widowed graduate student, to the...
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