Showing results for "Mary Kay Zuravleff" in Literature & Fiction

In this immersive novel, Zuravleff weaves Russian fairy tales and fables into a family saga within the storied American landscape. The challenges facing immigrants-and the fragility of citizenship-are just as unsettling and surprising today as they were 100 years ago.

All it takes is a quarter to change pediatric psychiatrist Dr. Owen Lerner's life. When the coin he's feeding into a parking meter is struck by lightning, Lerner survives...and now all he wants to do is barbecue. What will happen to his patients, who rely on him to make sense of their world? What will happen to his family? The bolt of lightning that lifts Owen Lerner into the air sends his clan into free fall.

This entertaining, award-winning novel about love, electricity, and life after death tells the story of George Mahoney, a refrigerator designer gone stale, and his new office mate, Niagara Spense. The six-foot-tall Niagara, who sees electricity as a mysterious animating force, shakes the very foundations of George's belief in facts and the physical world. And that's before she reveals that she is on an incredible quest for electrical evidence of life after death - "audible fossils" she calls them.