Floating in the Neversink

by Andrea Simon

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Pub Date Oct 03 2019 | Archive Date Sep 29 2024

Black Rose Writing

Literary Fiction | Women's Fiction

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Description

In the summer of 1955, nine-year-old Amanda Gerber tearfully leaves her best friend, Francine, and their adventurous life on her block in Brooklyn’s Flatbush. She joins her cantankerous family on the long, hot drive to her grandmother’s home in the Catskill Mountains among the city’s Jews who flock to countless hotels and bungalow colonies in the heyday of the Borscht Belt. In the idyllic mountains, Amanda becomes ensconced in the tumult of her extended family and their friends, often seeking solace in the woods with her beloved cousin Laura.

Through the following summers, interspersed with the heightened drama of her emotionally charged city life, Amanda faces severe tests to her survival mechanisms, including the pain of loss, abuse, and betrayal, while family secrets threaten to disrupt her life even further. A novel-in-stories, Floating in the Neversink is a testament to the power of survival, friendship, and love.

A Note From the Publisher

Andrea Simon is a writer and photographer based in New York City. For the past several years, she has devoted her efforts to fiction and literary nonfiction, including her published memoir/history, Bashert: A Granddaughter’s Holocaust Quest, now in paperback, and her award-winning historical novel, Esfir Is Alive. Andrea has published numerous stories and essays and has received prestigious literary honors. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the City College of New York where she has taught writing.

Andrea Simon is a writer and photographer based in New York City. For the past several years, she has devoted her efforts to fiction and literary nonfiction, including her published memoir/history...

Advance Praise

“Andrea Simon captures the loveliness and loneliness of youth, and how she comes to terms with the contradictions of her childhood.” –Michelle Cameron, author of The Fruit of Her Hands

“In her beautiful, descriptive prose, Andrea Simon captures not only the experiences of a childhood but paints a portrait of an entire culture. Here is a broad human seriocomedy flavored with cheese blintzes and vanilla egg creams.” –Katherine Kirkpatrick, author of Mysterious Bones

“I laughed and cried at these vivid stories of a girl’s Catskills summers and Brooklyn school days as she ages from nine to 15 from 1955-1961. Floating in the Neversink is a joy to read.” –Stephanie Cowell, author Claude and Camille and Marrying Mozart, an American Book Award winner

“Andrea Simon captures the loveliness and loneliness of youth, and how she comes to terms with the contradictions of her childhood.” –Michelle Cameron, author of The Fruit of Her Hands

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