No One is Here Except All of Us

From the award-winning author of Sons and Daughters of Ease and Plenty and the new story collection Awayland.. In 1939 the families in a remote Jewish village in Romania feel the war close in on them. Their tribe has moved and escaped for thousands of years- across oceans deserts and mountains-but now it seems there is nowhere else to go. Danger is imminent in every direction yet the territory of imagination and belief is limitless. At the suggestion of an eleven-year-old girl and a mysterious stranger who has washed up on the riverbank the villagers decide to reinvent the world: deny any relationship with the known and start over from scratch. Destiny is unwritten. Time and history are forgotten. Jobs husbands a child are reassigned. And for years there is boundless hope. But the real world continues to unfold alongside the imagined one eventually overtaking it and soon our narrator-the girl grown into a young mother-must flee her village move from one world to the next to find her husband and save her children and propel them toward a real and hopeful future. A beguiling imaginative inspiring story about the bigness of being alive as an individual as a member of a tribe and as a participant in history No One Is Here Except All Of Us explores how we use storytelling to survive and shape our own truths. It marks the arrival of a major new literary talent.