The Book of Live Wires

By Gayle Brandeis
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Published: Oct. 27, 2011
Words: 53,300 (approximate)
Language: English
ISBN: 9781466154483

Short description

The eagerly anticipated sequel to Gayle Brandeis' beloved Bellwether Prize-winning novel The Book of Dead Birds is now available exclusively as an ebook. Narrated by Darryl Sternberg, Ava Sing Lo's love interest from The Book of Dead Birds and now her husband and the father of their baby, The Book of Live Wires is an electrifying novel about love, identity and family secrets.

Extended description

Still grieving the death of his first wife, Darryl Sternberg enlists a woman to translate his grandmother’s journals from Russian, French and Yiddish. He finds himself increasingly embroiled with his quirky yet provocative translator as she uncovers hidden stories within his Jewish roots. His new wife Ava Sing Lo, meanwhile, is searching for her unknown father, who had been a black soldier in Korea. Their baby is diagnosed with sickle cell anemia; as Darryl and Ava learn to navigate Bella’s illness, they also learn to navigate and confront the secrets they’ve kept from one another (and themselves).

Readers of the Bellwether Prize-winning novel The Book of Dead Birds will cheer the return of cherished characters, and new readers will fall in love with the Sternberg-Sing Lo family for the first time. Filled with humor and heartache, The Book of Live Wires is ultimately a story about moving forward with love, even in the face of uncertainty.

Praise for The Book of Dead Birds (Read more) Still grieving the death of his first wife, Darryl Sternberg enlists a woman to translate his grandmother’s journals from Russian, French and Yiddish. He finds himself increasingly embroiled with his quirky yet provocative translator as she uncovers hidden stories within his Jewish roots. His new wife Ava Sing Lo, meanwhile, is searching for her unknown father, who had been a black soldier in Korea. Their baby is diagnosed with sickle cell anemia; as Darryl and Ava learn to navigate Bella’s illness, they also learn to navigate and confront the secrets they’ve kept from one another (and themselves).

Readers of the Bellwether Prize-winning novel The Book of Dead Birds will cheer the return of cherished characters, and new readers will fall in love with the Sternberg-Sing Lo family for the first time. Filled with humor and heartache, The Book of Live Wires is ultimately a story about moving forward with love, even in the face of uncertainty.

Praise for The Book of Dead Birds

“Lyrical, imaginative, beautifully crafted, and deeply intelligent. Before anything else, its characters take you by the heart.”
— Barbara Kingsolver

“[It] has an edgy beauty that enhances perfectly the seriousness of its contents.”
— Toni Morrison

“[A] vivid tale of a woman learning to save and cherish life.”
— San Francisco Chronicle

“Brandeis has a poet’s ear for the music of language …[her] characters and their fledgling flights of the heart stay with readers long after the book is closed and set aside.”
— January Magazine
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Tags

literary, marriage, family, novel, baby, los angeles, russia, dance, wwii, secrets, parenting, jewish, translation, sickle cell anemia, prize winning, salton sea

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Review by: Donna Kennedy on Nov. 27, 2011 : (no rating)
Addendum to my review: "The Book of Live Wires" is definitely star worthy, but I find such ratings too subjective and therefore don't use them.
(reviewed within a month of purchase)

Review by: Donna Kennedy on Nov. 27, 2011 : (no rating)
In her new novel, Gayle Brandeis takes us inside marriage and parenting with the intimacy and sensuality that her readers have come to expect and treasure. This time, she writes deftly from a male perspective, the sensitive thoughtful Darryl. Ever since "The Book of Dead Birds," I'd wondered if he and Ava had had a "happy ever after." They endure more than newlywed/new parents should, but their challenges make good drama. As always, I fell in love with an offbeat character in Gayle's fiction. This time it was Zipporah, whose place in the tale Gayle wisely leaves open-ended.
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