Cathleen Schine, the bestselling author of The Three Weissmanns of Westport once dubbed "the modern-day Jewish Jane Austen," is back with a comedy of generational manners about exile and the power of stories-both the ones we hand down and the ones held secretly in the heart-that slips between 1939 and 2020 L.A. as Mamie Künstler and her twentysomething grandson entertain and care for each other under lockdown.
Cathleen Schine is the author of The Grammarians, The Three Weissmanns of Westport, and The Love Letter, among other novels. She has contributed to The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, The New York Times Magazine, and The New York Times Book Review. She lives in Los Angeles.
A People Magazine Book of the Week
An NPR Best Book of the Year "A moving and entertaining novel about
how we revisit memories to make meaning for ourselves and others. .
. . Ms. Schine has a wonderful ability to weave research and
substantive ideas into her novels without weighing them down. Her
buoyant dialogue has the zip of great comedy routines."
--Wall Street Journal "Schine's delight in language is
contagious--she offers up words like baubles, turning them this way
and that to catch the light. . . . A paean to the regenerative
power of storytelling and to Los Angeles itself."
--Kim Hubbard, New York Times Book Review "The novel emphasizes
echoes across history but explores intergenerational gaps, too,
and--despite handling such weighty subject matter as survivor's
guilt, sexual repression, and the ongoing traumas of racial and
religious persecution--maintains a remarkable lightness of tone and
of characterization."
--New Yorker "K�nstlers in Paradise is a tender family story, but
it is also a profound meditation on the nature and power of
storytelling, inheritance, and legacy, the malleability and
perdurability of memory."
--Boston Globe "Dreamy, drifty, and droll, studded with lush
botanical description and historical gems. Schine's many fans will
enjoy."
--Kirkus Reviews "Reading like a cross between Leopoldstadt and
Down and Out in Beverly Hills, this does the trick as an
emotionally resonant meditation on family, memory, and the need for
stories."
--Publishers Weekly "Few authors could pull off what Cathleen
Schine does in K�nstlers in Paradise: creating a seamless,
multilayered saga about family dynamics and relationships,
immigration, the early days of Hollywood and the often disturbingly
cyclical nature of history. . . . K�nstlers in Paradise is truly a
trove of unexpected rewards."
--BookPage, Starred Review
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