Adam Braver is the author of five novels (Mr. Lincoln's Wars, Divine Sarah, Crows Over The Wheatfield, November 22, 1963, and Misfit). His books have been selected for the Barnes and Noble Discover New Writers program, Borders' Original Voices series, the IndieNext list, and twice for the Book Sense list, as well as having been translated into French, Italian, Japanese, Turkish, and Russian. Braver's fiction and essays have appeared in journals such as Daedalus, Ontario Review, Cimarron Review, Water-Stone Review, Harvard Review, Tin House, The Normal School, West Branch, The Pinch, and Post Road. He is on faculty and author-in-residence at Roger Williams University in Bristol, RI. He also teaches at the New York State Summer Writers Institute.
"Adam Braver's vivid characters move through a haunted
landscape--the world forever changed by terror--that has become all
too familiar to many of us. This compelling and elegantly written
novel charts the intersections of individual and collective grief,
unfolding in unexpected ways. It is both profoundly personal and
smartly political, a memorable page turner with urgent, resonant
themes." -- Alix Ohlin, author of Signs and Wonder "Braver's novel
is rich and humane, a tightly controlled, beautifully orchestrated
portrait of contemporary terrors and the feedback loops of fear and
paranoia they create that mesmerize us and, tragically, sometimes
drive us mad. There are those that disappear in the violence, and
those that disappear searching for them in their wakes, trying to
make sense of insanity." -- Paul Harding, winner of the Pulitzer
Prize "The Disappeared concerns itself with the collateral damage
visited upon two families in the aftermath of politically motivated
trauma. Its aim is to personalize the effects of foreign dissent,
of national protest, of mere happenstance, of sheer bad luck. Its
two lead characters pursue their faithful remembrance of those they
lost, who, then, after all, have not disappeared. It is a strangely
uplifting book, given its subject and the times we live in. Highly
recommended." -- Antonya Nelson, winner of the Rea Award for the
Short Story "You have only to say four words --'Adam Braver' and
'new book' -- and I'm already halfway to my nearest independent
bookstore in search of a copy." -- David Abrams, author of Brave
Deeds and Fobbit "This latest novel from Braver (Misfit) has two
story lines. Lucy is a young wife whose husband vanishes without a
trace in a terrorist attack, while Edgar is fixated on the
disappearance of his sister in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.
Lucy finds it difficult to deal with the notoriety of being the
public face of the victims and the pressure from the government
over trying the surviving terrorist. Edgar, whose mental state is
frail following a savage beating some 20 years earlier, meets Lucy
in a therapy jazz group. . . Braver's book works best as insight
into loss, grief, and psychological frailty and insecurity." -
Library Journal Praise for Adam Braver "Braver is a terrific
writer, an observer of the most acute details; throughout the book,
he traces the subtle interactions of his characters as they collide
and move apart." -- Los Angeles Times "Braver has achieved more
than a skillful retelling of a particularly morbid moment in
American history. With its collage-like structure and postmodern
blend of fact and fiction, November 22, 1963 raises fascinating
questions about how we perceive history and the ways in which
personal and collective experience intersect." -- The Oregonian "a
blazingly original, brilliantly concretized historical novel from
the author of Mr. Lincoln's War"-- ELLE ". . .a captivating mix of
fact and fiction. . . While the accumulation of small moments gives
the book its weightiness, the stories of people peripherally
associated with the assassination make the book sing." --
Publisher's Weekly
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