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Editor Reviews:

Product Description:
Panoramic in scope, Away is the epic and intimate story of young Lillian Leyb, a dangerous innocent, an accidental heroine. When her family is destroyed in a Russian pogrom, Lillian comes to America alone, determined to make her way in a new land. When word comes that her daughter, Sophie, might still be alive, Lillian embarks on an odyssey that takes her from the world of the Yiddish theater on New York’s Lower East Side, to Seattle’s Jazz District, and up to Alaska, along the fabled Telegraph Trail toward Siberia. All of the qualities readers love in Amy Bloom’s work–her humor and wit, her elegant and irreverent language, her unflinching understanding of passion and the human heart–come together in the embrace of this brilliant novel, which is at once heartbreaking, romantic, and completely unforgettable.

Rating : - Chicken Soup Potboiler
I began reading this book with high hopes but somewhere after Lillian decides to leave the Yiddish theater and to return to Siberia, I began to sense that this adventure story was a hoax. I followed Lillian through each separate adventure feeling as if I were watching a serialized potboiler. I stopped believing in the character and felt the author plodding along, putting her main character into one absurd situation after another, leaning heavily on sex and violence to keep the narrative moving. I cannot say the novel didn't hold my interest. I wanted to know if she ever found her daughter. That kept me reading. But the book felt like a silent film satire in places, especially in the passages about her struggle for survival. What is this? "The Perils of Pauline"????? I expected a scene in which she was lashed to the railroad tracks with the train speeding in her direction. The author's habit of summarizing what happens to each character after the end of the novel becomes repetitive and I was disappointed in the ending. I would have given Lillian a more dramatic fate than turning her into an Alaskan housefrau who can see Russia from her window. Juxtaposing Soviet USSR, the Lower East Side and honkey-tonk Alaska is no mean feat and Bloom gets credit for great research and a broad interesting landscape. Her main character, however, is basically not very sympathetic or interesting and, alas, as completely synthetic as a plastic matzoh ball.