Siberia is nobody's idea of a destination — not now, and certainly not in the 1920s, though that's where Amy Bloom's main character is trying to get to in her latest novel "Away." Bloom loosely based the character of Lilian on a historical record of a mute immigrant woman who walked through Alaska's wilderness determined to get home to Russia.You can read my full review of "Away" at Corridorbuzz.com.
Away makes a literary leap uncommon to most novels about the American experience: that there is no greater reason than love to give all that other stuff up.
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