Background
Antopol was born in Culver City, California and attended Linwood E. Howe Elementary School, Culver City Middle School, Culver City High School and the University of California, Santa Cruz.
( * Longlisted for the National Book Award * A stunning e...)
* Longlisted for the National Book Award * A stunning exploration of characters shaped by the forces of history, the debut work of fiction by a 2013 National Book Foundation "5 Under 35" Honoree. An absentee father, a former dissident from communist-era Prague, needles his adult daughter for details about her newly commissioned play when he fears it will cast him in an unflattering light. An actor, imprisoned during the Red Scare for playing up his communist leanings to get a part with a leftist film director, is shamed by his act when he reunites with his precocious young son. An Israeli soldier, forced to defend a settlement filled with American religious families, still pines for a chance to discover the United States for himself. A young Israeli journalist, left unemployed after America’s most recent economic crash, questions her life path when she begins dating a middle-aged widower still in mourning for his wife. And in the book’s final story, a tour de force spanning three continents and three generations of women, a young American and her Israeli husband are forced to reconsider their marriage after the death of her dissident art-collecting grandmother. Again and again, Molly Antopol’s deeply sympathetic characters struggle for footing in an uncertain world, hounded by forces beyond their control. Their voices are intimate and powerful and they resonate with searing beauty. Antopol is a superb young talent, and The UnAmericans will long be remembered for its wit, humanity, and heart.
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Antopol was born in Culver City, California and attended Linwood E. Howe Elementary School, Culver City Middle School, Culver City High School and the University of California, Santa Cruz.
Personal Life/Education/ She is a former Wallace Stegner Fellow and is currently a Jones Lecturer at Stanford University. Her debut story collection The UnAmericans was published in February 2014 by West. West. Norton & Company. lieutenant will be published in seven countries.
In the New York Times, critic Dwight Garner favorably compared Antopol"s work to that of Grace Paley and Allegra Goodman, finding the writing "Fresh and offbeat… memorable and promising.” In reviewing The UnAmericans for National Public Radio, author Meg Wolitzer commented that the stories "make you nostalgic, not just for earlier times, but for another era in short fiction.
A time when writers such as Bernard Malamud, and Isaac Bashevis Singer and Grace Paley roamed the earth.” In a review in Esquire, critic Benjamin Percy wrote that the book "is poised to be this year’s sensation. The layered riches and historical sweep of its stories make them feel grand, like novels writ small.
This collection matters so much." She lives in San Francisco. 2015 New York Public Library Young Lions Fiction Award for The Un-Americans.
( * Longlisted for the National Book Award * A stunning e...)