L. Bordetsky-Williams

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L. BORDETSKY-WILLIAMS is the author of Forget Russia, published by Tailwinds Press in December, 2020. Forget Russia was chosen as an Editors' Choice Book by the Historical Novel Society. She has also published The Artist as Outsider in the Novels of Toni Morrison and Virginia Woolf (Greenwood Press, 2000); the memoir, Letters to Virginia Woolf (Hamilton Books, 2005); and three poetry chapbooks—The Eighth Phrase (Porkbelly Press 2014), Sky Studies (Finishing Line Press 2014), and In the Early Morning Calling (Finishing Line Press, 2018). In 1980, she studied in Moscow at the Pushkin Institute. She is a Professor of Literature at Ramapo College of New Jersey and lives in New York City. ...more

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My novel, Forget Russia, an Editors' Choice Book of the Historical Novels Review, is discounted ON SALE on Amazon. It's an immigrant story dealing with love, revolution, and betrayal.--Forget Russia looks at inherited trauma and how one young woman journeys back to an ancestral homeland to heal not only herself but the women who came before her.
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