Every family has a story. Every story, eventually, must be told.
Elizabeth Rosner is a graduate of Stanford University and received a master of fine arts in creative writing from the University of California at Irvine. Her poetry and fiction have appeared in Poetry East, Southern Poetry Review, and Another Chicago Magazine, among other publications. She lives in Berkeley, California.
"The Speed of Light is an elegant, meticulous, and quite subtle
novel about lives lived at a remove from, but forever connected to,
tragedy--the camps. Ms. Rosner's imaginative aim, of course, is to
show us great human importance where we might've thought it didn't
reside, and to change us with this knowledge. She certainly
succeeds."
--RICHARD FORD
"A resonating novel about silence and sharing, about the mystery
and pain of the past and how it must be reclaimed. Beautifully
written, in images that sing in our ears long after we've put the
book down."
--CHITRA RANERTEE DIVAKARUNI
Author of The Mistress of Spices and The Unknown Errors of Our
Lives
"Rilke memorably defined art as exactness, a hatred of the vague,
and by that definition The Speed of Light is poetry sustained. The
precision of the language here, the structural arrangements and the
deft evocation of character in history all herald a genuine
talent--not so much emerging as achieved. Ms. Rosner's debut novel
turns sorrow into song."
--NICHOLAS DELBANCO
Author of What Remains
"With its symphony of voices, The Speed of Light tells a haunting
story of loss and redemption. It is beautifully written and utterly
affecting."
--TOVA MIRVIS
Author of The Ladies Auxiliary
"Elizabeth Rosner touches a chord deep down where our fears are
buried, then makes that chord vibrate and hum until magic happens
and it sings. I loved this book. It entered my dreams."
--BEVERLY DONOFRIO
Author of Riding in Cars with Boys and Looking For Mary
"Elizabeth Rosner has written a lyrical and absorbing novel whose
power is enriched by its understatement. This uncommon story not
only probes how children wrestle with the silence handed down to
them by a silent father cursed with inexhaustible sorrow, but it
also tells us of the healing magic of love and does so through a
marvelous and unusual character--a Latino housekeeper--who will
find an enduring spot in readers' hearts."
--JOSEPH BERGER
Author of Displaced Persons: Growing Up American After the
Holocaust
"The Speed of Light is an elegant, meticulous, and quite
subtle novel about lives lived at a remove from, but forever
connected to, tragedy--the camps. Ms. Rosner's imaginative aim, of
course, is to show us great human importance where we might've
thought it didn't reside, and to change us with this knowledge. She
certainly succeeds."
--RICHARD FORD
"A resonating novel about silence and sharing, about the mystery
and pain of the past and how it must be reclaimed. Beautifully
written, in images that sing in our ears long after we've put the
book down."
--CHITRA RANERTEE DIVAKARUNI
Author of The Mistress of Spices and The Unknown Errors
of Our Lives
"Rilke memorably defined art as exactness, a hatred of the vague,
and by that definition The Speed of Light is poetry
sustained. The precision of the language here, the structural
arrangements and the deft evocation of character in history all
herald a genuine talent--not so much emerging as achieved. Ms.
Rosner's debut novel turns sorrow into song."
--NICHOLAS DELBANCO
Author of What Remains
"With its symphony of voices, The Speed of Light tells a haunting
story of loss and redemption. It is beautifully written and utterly
affecting."
--TOVA MIRVIS
Author of The Ladies Auxiliary
"Elizabeth Rosner touches a chord deep down where our fears are
buried, then makes that chord vibrate and hum until magic happens
and it sings. I loved this book. It entered my dreams."
--BEVERLY DONOFRIO
Author of Riding in Cars with Boys and Looking For
Mary
"Elizabeth Rosner has written a lyrical and absorbing novel whose
power is enriched by its understatement. This uncommon story not
only probes how children wrestle with the silence handed down to
them by a silent father cursed with inexhaustible sorrow, but it
also tells us of the healing magic of love and does so through a
marvelous and unusual character--a Latino housekeeper--who will
find an enduring spot in readers' hearts."
--JOSEPH BERGER
Author of Displaced Persons: Growing Up American After the
Holocaust
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