<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<GoodreadsResponse>
	<Request>
		<authentication>false</authentication>
		    <method><![CDATA[]]></method>
	</Request>
	
<book>
  <id>217086</id>
  <title><![CDATA[Away: A Novel]]></title>
  <isbn><![CDATA[1400063566]]></isbn>
  <isbn13><![CDATA[9781400063567]]></isbn13>
  <image_url>http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg</image_url>
  <small_image_url>http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg</small_image_url>
  <description><![CDATA[Panoramic in scope, Away is the epic and intimate story of young Lillian Leyb, a dangerous innocent, an accidental heroine. When her family is destroyed in a Russian pogrom, Lillian comes to America alone, determined to make her way in a new land. When word comes that her daughter, Sophie, might still be alive, Lillian embarks on an odyssey that takes her from the world of the Yiddish theater on New York’s Lower East Side, to Seattle’s Jazz District, and up to Alaska, along the fabled Telegraph Trail toward Siberia. All of the qualities readers love in Amy Bloom’s work–her humor and wit, her elegant and irreverent language, her unflinching understanding of passion and the human heart–come together in the embrace of this brilliant novel, which is at once heartbreaking, romantic, and completely unforgettable.<br/><br/>A sweeping epic in only 200 pages. The story of a young Jewish woman who escaped a pogrom in Russia to make her way to the United States, only to make her way back to Siberia to fnd her daughter who was presumed dead. From Russia to NY right up to Alaska and to the Bering Sea. This book brings you miles through time and history.<br/><br/>]]></description>
  <work>
  <best_book_id type="integer">466539</best_book_id>
  <books_count type="integer">15</books_count>
  <desc_user_id type="integer" nil="true"></desc_user_id>
  <id type="integer">3286459</id>
  <media_type nil="true"></media_type>
  <original_language_id type="integer" nil="true"></original_language_id>
  <original_publication_day type="integer" nil="true"></original_publication_day>
  <original_publication_month type="integer" nil="true"></original_publication_month>
  <original_publication_year type="integer">2007</original_publication_year>
  <original_title>Away</original_title>
  <rating_dist>total:3373|5:455|4:1126|3:1143|2:474|1:175|</rating_dist>
  <ratings_count type="integer">3373</ratings_count>
  <ratings_sum type="integer">11331</ratings_sum>
  <reviews_count type="integer">4988</reviews_count>
  <text_reviews_count type="integer">979</text_reviews_count>
</work>

  <average_rating><![CDATA[3.36]]></average_rating>
  <ratings_count><![CDATA[184]]></ratings_count>
  <text_reviews_count><![CDATA[49]]></text_reviews_count>
  
  <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/217086.Away_A_Novel]]></url>
  <link><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/217086.Away_A_Novel]]></link>
  <authors>
    <author>
    <id>115220</id>
        <name><![CDATA[Amy Bloom]]></name>
    <image_url><![CDATA[http://photo.goodreads.com/authors/1205260949p5/115220.jpg]]></image_url>
    <small_image_url><![CDATA[http://photo.goodreads.com/authors/1205260949p2/115220.jpg]]></small_image_url>
    <link><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/115220.Amy_Bloom]]></link>
    <average_rating>3.53</average_rating>
    <ratings_count>5405</ratings_count>
    <text_reviews_count>1217</text_reviews_count>
  </author>
  </authors>
    <reviews start="1" end="20" total="4988">
      <review>
  <id>5018594</id>
    <user>
    <id>41</id>
    <name><![CDATA[Ewurama]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[The United States]]></location>
    <link><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/41-ewurama]]></link>
    <image_url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/images/nophoto-F-111x148.jpg]]></image_url>
    <small_image_url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/images/nophoto-F-50x66.jpg]]></small_image_url>
  </user>
    <book>
  <id type="integer">466539</id>
  <isbn>9781400063</isbn>
  <isbn13 nil="true"></isbn13>
  <text_reviews_count type="integer">874</text_reviews_count>
  <title>
    <![CDATA[Away]]>
  </title>
  <image_url>http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1187475178m/466539.jpg</image_url>
  <small_image_url>http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1187475178s/466539.jpg</small_image_url>
  <link>http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/466539.Away</link>
  <average_rating>3.36</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>3020</ratings_count>
  <description>
    <![CDATA[Panoramic in scope, Away is the epic and intimate story of young Lillian Leyb, a dangerous innocent, an accidental heroine. When her family is destroyed in a Russian pogrom, Lillian comes to America alone, determined to make her way in a new land. When word comes that her daughter, Sophie, might still be alive, Lillian embarks on an odyssey that takes her from the world of the Yiddish theater on New York’s Lower East Side, to Seattle’s Jazz District, and up to Alaska, along the fabled Telegraph Trail toward Siberia. All of the qualities readers love in Amy Bloom’s work–her humor and wit, her elegant and irreverent language, her unflinching understanding of passion and the human heart–come together in the embrace of this brilliant novel, which is at once heartbreaking, romantic, and completely unforgettable.]]>
  </description>
  <published>2007</published>
</book>

    <rating>2</rating>
  <votes>18</votes>
  <spoiler_flag>false</spoiler_flag>
  <shelves>
        <shelf name="read" />
          </shelves>
  <recommended_for><![CDATA[]]></recommended_for>
  <recommended_by><![CDATA[]]></recommended_by>
  <read_at>Sat Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
  <date_added>Thu Aug 23 13:02:29 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Dec 17 06:46:24 -0800 2009</date_updated>
  <read_count></read_count>
    <body><![CDATA[The review is long overdue on this, but here goes…<br/><br/>I wanted to *love* this book.  I’d come off a string of just-okay books and was very much in the mood for something epic and heartwarming (or heartrending) and memorable.  It was well-reviewed and the storyline sounded promising, so I...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5018594">more...</a>]]></body>
    
  <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5018594]]></url>
  <link><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5018594]]></link>
</review>
      <review>
  <id>13625432</id>
    <user>
    <id>808994</id>
    <name><![CDATA[Doug]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Salt Lake City, UT]]></location>
    <link><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/808994-doug]]></link>
    <image_url><![CDATA[http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1245332032p3/808994.jpg]]></image_url>
    <small_image_url><![CDATA[http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1245332032p2/808994.jpg]]></small_image_url>
  </user>
    <book>
  <id type="integer">466539</id>
  <isbn>9781400063</isbn>
  <isbn13 nil="true"></isbn13>
  <text_reviews_count type="integer">874</text_reviews_count>
  <title>
    <![CDATA[Away]]>
  </title>
  <image_url>http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1187475178m/466539.jpg</image_url>
  <small_image_url>http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1187475178s/466539.jpg</small_image_url>
  <link>http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/466539.Away</link>
  <average_rating>3.36</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>3373</ratings_count>
  <description>
    <![CDATA[Panoramic in scope, Away is the epic and intimate story of young Lillian Leyb, a dangerous innocent, an accidental heroine. When her family is destroyed in a Russian pogrom, Lillian comes to America alone, determined to make her way in a new land. When word comes that her daughter, Sophie, might still be alive, Lillian embarks on an odyssey that takes her from the world of the Yiddish theater on New York’s Lower East Side, to Seattle’s Jazz District, and up to Alaska, along the fabled Telegraph Trail toward Siberia. All of the qualities readers love in Amy Bloom’s work–her humor and wit, her elegant and irreverent language, her unflinching understanding of passion and the human heart–come together in the embrace of this brilliant novel, which is at once heartbreaking, romantic, and completely unforgettable.]]>
  </description>
  <published>2007</published>
</book>

    <rating>5</rating>
  <votes>9</votes>
  <spoiler_flag>false</spoiler_flag>
  <shelves>
        <shelf name="read" />
          </shelves>
  <recommended_for><![CDATA[Unsqueamish]]></recommended_for>
  <recommended_by><![CDATA[NYTimes and EW]]></recommended_by>
  <read_at>Sat Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
  <date_added>Sat Jan 26 09:59:21 -0800 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sat Jan 26 10:00:45 -0800 2008</date_updated>
  <read_count></read_count>
    <body><![CDATA[Rather than review, I'm going to make my observations: <br/><br/>1. The book transported me into the life and brain of a 22 year old Russian girl who had to flee Russia to America in the 1920s. She has lived through the slaughter of her family and arrives in NYC without anything but the dress she'...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/13625432">more...</a>]]></body>
    
  <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/13625432]]></url>
  <link><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/13625432]]></link>
</review>
      <review>
  <id>5554378</id>
    <user>
    <id>37487</id>
    <name><![CDATA[Lillian]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Oakland, CA]]></location>
    <link><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/37487-lillian]]></link>
    <image_url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/images/nophoto-F-111x148.jpg]]></image_url>
    <small_image_url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/images/nophoto-F-50x66.jpg]]></small_image_url>
  </user>
    <book>
  <id type="integer">466539</id>
  <isbn>9781400063</isbn>
  <isbn13 nil="true"></isbn13>
  <text_reviews_count type="integer">874</text_reviews_count>
  <title>
    <![CDATA[Away]]>
  </title>
  <image_url>http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1187475178m/466539.jpg</image_url>
  <small_image_url>http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1187475178s/466539.jpg</small_image_url>
  <link>http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/466539.Away</link>
  <average_rating>3.36</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>3373</ratings_count>
  <description>
    <![CDATA[Panoramic in scope, Away is the epic and intimate story of young Lillian Leyb, a dangerous innocent, an accidental heroine. When her family is destroyed in a Russian pogrom, Lillian comes to America alone, determined to make her way in a new land. When word comes that her daughter, Sophie, might still be alive, Lillian embarks on an odyssey that takes her from the world of the Yiddish theater on New York’s Lower East Side, to Seattle’s Jazz District, and up to Alaska, along the fabled Telegraph Trail toward Siberia. All of the qualities readers love in Amy Bloom’s work–her humor and wit, her elegant and irreverent language, her unflinching understanding of passion and the human heart–come together in the embrace of this brilliant novel, which is at once heartbreaking, romantic, and completely unforgettable.]]>
  </description>
  <published>2007</published>
</book>

    <rating>5</rating>
  <votes>6</votes>
  <spoiler_flag>false</spoiler_flag>
  <shelves>
        <shelf name="read" />
            <shelf name="fiction" />
        <shelf name="reviewed" />
      </shelves>
  <recommended_for><![CDATA[]]></recommended_for>
  <recommended_by><![CDATA[]]></recommended_by>
  <read_at>Sat Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
  <date_added>Sun Sep 02 19:22:05 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon Sep 03 00:52:05 -0700 2007</date_updated>
  <read_count></read_count>
    <body><![CDATA[I took a writing class with Amy Bloom during my freshman year of college. What stuck with me most from this class was her insistence that even when you're writing about an unlikable, even villainous, character, it is essential that you have sympathy for that character, or the story won't work. <br/>...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5554378">more...</a>]]></body>
    
  <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5554378]]></url>
  <link><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5554378]]></link>
</review>
      <review>
  <id>8169649</id>
    <user>
    <id>571440</id>
    <name><![CDATA[Rosa]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Minneapolis, MN]]></location>
    <link><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/571440-rosa]]></link>
    <image_url><![CDATA[http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1193198349p3/571440.jpg]]></image_url>
    <small_image_url><![CDATA[http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1193198349p2/571440.jpg]]></small_image_url>
  </user>
    <book>
  <id type="integer">466539</id>
  <isbn>9781400063</isbn>
  <isbn13 nil="true"></isbn13>
  <text_reviews_count type="integer">874</text_reviews_count>
  <title>
    <![CDATA[Away]]>
  </title>
  <image_url>http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1187475178m/466539.jpg</image_url>
  <small_image_url>http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1187475178s/466539.jpg</small_image_url>
  <link>http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/466539.Away</link>
  <average_rating>3.36</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>3373</ratings_count>
  <description>
    <![CDATA[Panoramic in scope, Away is the epic and intimate story of young Lillian Leyb, a dangerous innocent, an accidental heroine. When her family is destroyed in a Russian pogrom, Lillian comes to America alone, determined to make her way in a new land. When word comes that her daughter, Sophie, might still be alive, Lillian embarks on an odyssey that takes her from the world of the Yiddish theater on New York’s Lower East Side, to Seattle’s Jazz District, and up to Alaska, along the fabled Telegraph Trail toward Siberia. All of the qualities readers love in Amy Bloom’s work–her humor and wit, her elegant and irreverent language, her unflinching understanding of passion and the human heart–come together in the embrace of this brilliant novel, which is at once heartbreaking, romantic, and completely unforgettable.]]>
  </description>
  <published>2007</published>
</book>

    <rating>4</rating>
  <votes>4</votes>
  <spoiler_flag>false</spoiler_flag>
  <shelves>
        <shelf name="read" />
          </shelves>
  <recommended_for><![CDATA[]]></recommended_for>
  <recommended_by><![CDATA[]]></recommended_by>
  <read_at>Sat Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007</read_at>
  <date_added>Wed Oct 24 05:05:06 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Wed Oct 24 05:05:06 -0700 2007</date_updated>
  <read_count></read_count>
    <body><![CDATA[This book is really interesting. Considering the basic plot - Russian Jewish woman whose entire family was slaughtered before her eyes escapes to America with literally nothing, establishes a fairly comfortable life here, then completely abandons it to go back to Siberia, due to a rumor that her you...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/8169649">more...</a>]]></body>
    
  <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/8169649]]></url>
  <link><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/8169649]]></link>
</review>
      <review>
  <id>11967944</id>
    <user>
    <id>316751</id>
    <name><![CDATA[Bonnie]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Aurora, OH]]></location>
    <link><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/316751-bonnie]]></link>
    <image_url><![CDATA[http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1240150854p3/316751.jpg]]></image_url>
    <small_image_url><![CDATA[http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1240150854p2/316751.jpg]]></small_image_url>
  </user>
    <book>
  <id type="integer">466539</id>
  <isbn>9781400063</isbn>
  <isbn13 nil="true"></isbn13>
  <text_reviews_count type="integer">874</text_reviews_count>
  <title>
    <![CDATA[Away]]>
  </title>
  <image_url>http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1187475178m/466539.jpg</image_url>
  <small_image_url>http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1187475178s/466539.jpg</small_image_url>
  <link>http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/466539.Away</link>
  <average_rating>3.36</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>3373</ratings_count>
  <description>
    <![CDATA[Panoramic in scope, Away is the epic and intimate story of young Lillian Leyb, a dangerous innocent, an accidental heroine. When her family is destroyed in a Russian pogrom, Lillian comes to America alone, determined to make her way in a new land. When word comes that her daughter, Sophie, might still be alive, Lillian embarks on an odyssey that takes her from the world of the Yiddish theater on New York’s Lower East Side, to Seattle’s Jazz District, and up to Alaska, along the fabled Telegraph Trail toward Siberia. All of the qualities readers love in Amy Bloom’s work–her humor and wit, her elegant and irreverent language, her unflinching understanding of passion and the human heart–come together in the embrace of this brilliant novel, which is at once heartbreaking, romantic, and completely unforgettable.]]>
  </description>
  <published>2007</published>
</book>

    <rating>1</rating>
  <votes>5</votes>
  <spoiler_flag>true</spoiler_flag>
  <shelves>
        <shelf name="read" />
          </shelves>
  <recommended_for><![CDATA[]]></recommended_for>
  <recommended_by><![CDATA[]]></recommended_by>
  <read_at>Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Tue Jan 08 08:58:28 -0800 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Tue Jan 08 09:16:25 -0800 2008</date_updated>
  <read_count></read_count>
    <body><![CDATA[I was drawn to this book from the reviews as well as the historical fiction aspect of her novel. I really wanted to like the book but I did not. The novels main storyline was a good one and when Lillian went to the US from Russia during the time of immigrants in the 1920's it was a good start to the...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/11967944">more...</a>]]></body>
    
  <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/11967944]]></url>
  <link><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/11967944]]></link>
</review>
      <review>
  <id>71954293</id>
    <user>
    <id>2309191</id>
    <name><![CDATA[thewanderingjew]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Mashpee, MA]]></location>
    <link><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/2309191-thewanderingjew]]></link>
    <image_url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/images/nophoto-U-111x148.jpg]]></image_url>
    <small_image_url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/images/nophoto-U-50x66.jpg]]></small_image_url>
  </user>
    <book>
  <id type="integer">466539</id>
  <isbn>9781400063</isbn>
  <isbn13 nil="true"></isbn13>
  <text_reviews_count type="integer">874</text_reviews_count>
  <title>
    <![CDATA[Away]]>
  </title>
  <image_url>http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1187475178m/466539.jpg</image_url>
  <small_image_url>http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1187475178s/466539.jpg</small_image_url>
  <link>http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/466539.Away</link>
  <average_rating>3.36</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>3373</ratings_count>
  <description>
    <![CDATA[Panoramic in scope, Away is the epic and intimate story of young Lillian Leyb, a dangerous innocent, an accidental heroine. When her family is destroyed in a Russian pogrom, Lillian comes to America alone, determined to make her way in a new land. When word comes that her daughter, Sophie, might still be alive, Lillian embarks on an odyssey that takes her from the world of the Yiddish theater on New York’s Lower East Side, to Seattle’s Jazz District, and up to Alaska, along the fabled Telegraph Trail toward Siberia. All of the qualities readers love in Amy Bloom’s work–her humor and wit, her elegant and irreverent language, her unflinching understanding of passion and the human heart–come together in the embrace of this brilliant novel, which is at once heartbreaking, romantic, and completely unforgettable.]]>
  </description>
  <published>2007</published>
</book>

    <rating>3</rating>
  <votes>2</votes>
  <spoiler_flag>false</spoiler_flag>
  <shelves>
        <shelf name="read" />
          </shelves>
  <recommended_for><![CDATA[]]></recommended_for>
  <recommended_by><![CDATA[]]></recommended_by>
  <read_at>Fri Sep 25 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Sun Sep 20 21:34:42 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Tue Oct 13 13:04:14 -0700 2009</date_updated>
  <read_count></read_count>
    <body><![CDATA[When I opened the book to read, I discovered that I had already read it but did not remember it any cohesive way. To me, since it didn't leave much of a lasting impression, it would mean it was good but not wonderful. Only the most extreme events of the novel stayed  in my mind, but even then, it wa...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/71954293">more...</a>]]></body>
    
  <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/71954293]]></url>
  <link><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/71954293]]></link>
</review>
      <review>
  <id>22911244</id>
    <user>
    <id>440929</id>
    <name><![CDATA[Yosafbridg]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[The United States]]></location>
    <link><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/440929-yosafbridg]]></link>
    <image_url><![CDATA[http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1211664027p3/440929.jpg]]></image_url>
    <small_image_url><![CDATA[http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1211664027p2/440929.jpg]]></small_image_url>
  </user>
    <book>
  <id type="integer">217086</id>
  <isbn>1400063566</isbn>
  <isbn13>9781400063567</isbn13>
  <text_reviews_count type="integer">49</text_reviews_count>
  <title>
    <![CDATA[Away: A Novel]]>
  </title>
  <image_url>http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg</image_url>
  <small_image_url>http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg</small_image_url>
  <link>http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/217086.Away_A_Novel</link>
  <average_rating>3.27</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>184</ratings_count>
  <description>
    <![CDATA[Panoramic in scope, Away is the epic and intimate story of young Lillian Leyb, a dangerous innocent, an accidental heroine. When her family is destroyed in a Russian pogrom, Lillian comes to America alone, determined to make her way in a new land. When word comes that her daughter, Sophie, might still be alive, Lillian embarks on an odyssey that takes her from the world of the Yiddish theater on New York’s Lower East Side, to Seattle’s Jazz District, and up to Alaska, along the fabled Telegraph Trail toward Siberia. All of the qualities readers love in Amy Bloom’s work–her humor and wit, her elegant and irreverent language, her unflinching understanding of passion and the human heart–come together in the embrace of this brilliant novel, which is at once heartbreaking, romantic, and completely unforgettable.<br/><br/>A sweeping epic in only 200 pages. The story of a young Jewish woman who escaped a pogrom in Russia to make her way to the United States, only to make her way back to Siberia to fnd her daughter who was presumed dead. From Russia to NY right up to Alaska and to the Bering Sea. This book brings you miles through time and history.<br/><br/>]]>
  </description>
  <published>2007</published>
</book>

    <rating>2</rating>
  <votes>3</votes>
  <spoiler_flag>false</spoiler_flag>
  <shelves>
        <shelf name="read" />
            <shelf name="fiction" />
        <shelf name="own-and-read" />
      </shelves>
  <recommended_for><![CDATA[]]></recommended_for>
  <recommended_by><![CDATA[]]></recommended_by>
  <read_at>Sun Jul 15 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
  <date_added>Sun May 25 03:22:50 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sun May 25 03:40:23 -0700 2008</date_updated>
  <read_count></read_count>
    <body><![CDATA[&quot;an orphan, a widow, and the mother of a dead child, for which there's not even a special word&quot; <br/><br/>A few years ago i read The Woman who Walked to Russia: a writer's search for a lost legend by Cassandra Pybus. Pybus was browsing a bookshop while traveling through Northern British ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/22911244">more...</a>]]></body>
    
  <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/22911244]]></url>
  <link><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/22911244]]></link>
</review>
      <review>
  <id>9521725</id>
    <user>
    <id>291868</id>
    <name><![CDATA[Becky]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[The United States]]></location>
    <link><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/291868-becky]]></link>
    <image_url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/images/nophoto-F-111x148.jpg]]></image_url>
    <small_image_url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/images/nophoto-F-50x66.jpg]]></small_image_url>
  </user>
    <book>
  <id type="integer">466539</id>
  <isbn>9781400063</isbn>
  <isbn13 nil="true"></isbn13>
  <text_reviews_count type="integer">874</text_reviews_count>
  <title>
    <![CDATA[Away]]>
  </title>
  <image_url>http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1187475178m/466539.jpg</image_url>
  <small_image_url>http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1187475178s/466539.jpg</small_image_url>
  <link>http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/466539.Away</link>
  <average_rating>3.36</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>3373</ratings_count>
  <description>
    <![CDATA[Panoramic in scope, Away is the epic and intimate story of young Lillian Leyb, a dangerous innocent, an accidental heroine. When her family is destroyed in a Russian pogrom, Lillian comes to America alone, determined to make her way in a new land. When word comes that her daughter, Sophie, might still be alive, Lillian embarks on an odyssey that takes her from the world of the Yiddish theater on New York’s Lower East Side, to Seattle’s Jazz District, and up to Alaska, along the fabled Telegraph Trail toward Siberia. All of the qualities readers love in Amy Bloom’s work–her humor and wit, her elegant and irreverent language, her unflinching understanding of passion and the human heart–come together in the embrace of this brilliant novel, which is at once heartbreaking, romantic, and completely unforgettable.]]>
  </description>
  <published>2007</published>
</book>

    <rating>4</rating>
  <votes>2</votes>
  <spoiler_flag>false</spoiler_flag>
  <shelves>
        <shelf name="read" />
          </shelves>
  <recommended_for><![CDATA[]]></recommended_for>
  <recommended_by><![CDATA[]]></recommended_by>
  <read_at>Thu Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
  <date_added>Sun Nov 25 12:35:57 -0800 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sun Nov 25 13:07:42 -0800 2007</date_updated>
  <read_count></read_count>
    <body><![CDATA[&quot;Away&quot; is a sad book.  It's the story of Lillian Leyb, a Jewish immigrant who comes to New York after seeing her entire family violently murdered in their Russian village. When she discovers that her daughter may still be alive and in hiding in Siberia, she sets off to find her, literally ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/9521725">more...</a>]]></body>
    
  <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/9521725]]></url>
  <link><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/9521725]]></link>
</review>
      <review>
  <id>9096522</id>
    <user>
    <id>127703</id>
    <name><![CDATA[Lindsey]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Iowa City, IA]]></location>
    <link><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/127703-lindsey]]></link>
    <image_url><![CDATA[http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1209091041p3/127703.jpg]]></image_url>
    <small_image_url><![CDATA[http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1209091041p2/127703.jpg]]></small_image_url>
  </user>
    <book>
  <id type="integer">466539</id>
  <isbn>9781400063</isbn>
  <isbn13 nil="true"></isbn13>
  <text_reviews_count type="integer">874</text_reviews_count>
  <title>
    <![CDATA[Away]]>
  </title>
  <image_url>http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1187475178m/466539.jpg</image_url>
  <small_image_url>http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1187475178s/466539.jpg</small_image_url>
  <link>http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/466539.Away</link>
  <average_rating>3.36</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>3373</ratings_count>
  <description>
    <![CDATA[Panoramic in scope, Away is the epic and intimate story of young Lillian Leyb, a dangerous innocent, an accidental heroine. When her family is destroyed in a Russian pogrom, Lillian comes to America alone, determined to make her way in a new land. When word comes that her daughter, Sophie, might still be alive, Lillian embarks on an odyssey that takes her from the world of the Yiddish theater on New York’s Lower East Side, to Seattle’s Jazz District, and up to Alaska, along the fabled Telegraph Trail toward Siberia. All of the qualities readers love in Amy Bloom’s work–her humor and wit, her elegant and irreverent language, her unflinching understanding of passion and the human heart–come together in the embrace of this brilliant novel, which is at once heartbreaking, romantic, and completely unforgettable.]]>
  </description>
  <published>2007</published>
</book>

    <rating>2</rating>
  <votes>4</votes>
  <spoiler_flag>false</spoiler_flag>
  <shelves>
        <shelf name="read" />
          </shelves>
  <recommended_for><![CDATA[]]></recommended_for>
  <recommended_by><![CDATA[]]></recommended_by>
  <read_at>Thu Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
  <date_added>Wed Nov 14 07:05:22 -0800 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Tue Nov 27 18:10:28 -0800 2007</date_updated>
  <read_count></read_count>
    <body><![CDATA[I'm very unsure of how I feel about this book.  Parts of me loved it and parts of me felt so un-intellectual and low-brow for reading this romance novel, which essentially, is what it is.  For being a journey story about a woman who goes to find her daughter who was thought to be dead, there was not...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/9096522">more...</a>]]></body>
    
  <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/9096522]]></url>
  <link><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/9096522]]></link>
</review>
      <review>
  <id>44575409</id>
    <user>
    <id>1783140</id>
    <name><![CDATA[Katie]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[The United States]]></location>
    <link><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/1783140-katie]]></link>
    <image_url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/images/nophoto-F-111x148.jpg]]></image_url>
    <small_image_url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/images/nophoto-F-50x66.jpg]]></small_image_url>
  </user>
    <book>
  <id type="integer">466539</id>
  <isbn>9781400063</isbn>
  <isbn13 nil="true"></isbn13>
  <text_reviews_count type="integer">874</text_reviews_count>
  <title>
    <![CDATA[Away]]>
  </title>
  <image_url>http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1187475178m/466539.jpg</image_url>
  <small_image_url>http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1187475178s/466539.jpg</small_image_url>
  <link>http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/466539.Away</link>
  <average_rating>3.36</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>3373</ratings_count>
  <description>
    <![CDATA[Panoramic in scope, Away is the epic and intimate story of young Lillian Leyb, a dangerous innocent, an accidental heroine. When her family is destroyed in a Russian pogrom, Lillian comes to America alone, determined to make her way in a new land. When word comes that her daughter, Sophie, might still be alive, Lillian embarks on an odyssey that takes her from the world of the Yiddish theater on New York’s Lower East Side, to Seattle’s Jazz District, and up to Alaska, along the fabled Telegraph Trail toward Siberia. All of the qualities readers love in Amy Bloom’s work–her humor and wit, her elegant and irreverent language, her unflinching understanding of passion and the human heart–come together in the embrace of this brilliant novel, which is at once heartbreaking, romantic, and completely unforgettable.]]>
  </description>
  <published>2007</published>
</book>

    <rating>3</rating>
  <votes>1</votes>
  <spoiler_flag>false</spoiler_flag>
  <shelves>
        <shelf name="read" />
          </shelves>
  <recommended_for><![CDATA[]]></recommended_for>
  <recommended_by><![CDATA[]]></recommended_by>
  <read_at>Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Tue Jan 27 17:44:08 -0800 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon Feb 02 19:42:37 -0800 2009</date_updated>
  <read_count></read_count>
    <body><![CDATA[the story focuses on the external awesome life of an immigrant woman Lillian from the pograms to the lower east side to the pacific northwest to Alaska to Russia again. The charming, determined heroine struggles to survive, and then find her daughter again, and perhaps to find love. At first the boo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/44575409">more...</a>]]></body>
    
  <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/44575409]]></url>
  <link><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/44575409]]></link>
</review>
      <review>
  <id>48493531</id>
    <user>
    <id>1648600</id>
    <name><![CDATA[Doug]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[The United States]]></location>
    <link><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/1648600-doug-derry]]></link>
    <image_url><![CDATA[http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1224761921p3/1648600.jpg]]></image_url>
    <small_image_url><![CDATA[http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1224761921p2/1648600.jpg]]></small_image_url>
  </user>
    <book>
  <id type="integer">466539</id>
  <isbn>9781400063</isbn>
  <isbn13 nil="true"></isbn13>
  <text_reviews_count type="integer">874</text_reviews_count>
  <title>
    <![CDATA[Away]]>
  </title>
  <image_url>http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1187475178m/466539.jpg</image_url>
  <small_image_url>http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1187475178s/466539.jpg</small_image_url>
  <link>http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/466539.Away</link>
  <average_rating>3.36</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>3373</ratings_count>
  <description>
    <![CDATA[Panoramic in scope, Away is the epic and intimate story of young Lillian Leyb, a dangerous innocent, an accidental heroine. When her family is destroyed in a Russian pogrom, Lillian comes to America alone, determined to make her way in a new land. When word comes that her daughter, Sophie, might still be alive, Lillian embarks on an odyssey that takes her from the world of the Yiddish theater on New York’s Lower East Side, to Seattle’s Jazz District, and up to Alaska, along the fabled Telegraph Trail toward Siberia. All of the qualities readers love in Amy Bloom’s work–her humor and wit, her elegant and irreverent language, her unflinching understanding of passion and the human heart–come together in the embrace of this brilliant novel, which is at once heartbreaking, romantic, and completely unforgettable.]]>
  </description>
  <published>2007</published>
</book>

    <rating>4</rating>
  <votes>1</votes>
  <spoiler_flag>false</spoiler_flag>
  <shelves>
        <shelf name="read" />
          </shelves>
  <recommended_for><![CDATA[]]></recommended_for>
  <recommended_by><![CDATA[]]></recommended_by>
  <read_at>Tue Mar 24 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Sat Mar 07 05:29:34 -0800 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sun Apr 05 06:45:45 -0700 2009</date_updated>
  <read_count></read_count>
    <body><![CDATA[This one got under my skin and crept into my dreams and into my mind at random times throughout the work day and the last 100 pages or so had me completely captivated, but more than half of the book was behind me before this effect kicked in.  The prose is relentlessly effective at moving the narrat...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/48493531">more...</a>]]></body>
    
  <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/48493531]]></url>
  <link><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/48493531]]></link>
</review>
      <review>
  <id>34057099</id>
    <user>
    <id>289211</id>
    <name><![CDATA[Shira]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[River Edge, NJ]]></location>
    <link><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/289211-shira]]></link>
    <image_url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/images/nophoto-F-111x148.jpg]]></image_url>
    <small_image_url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/images/nophoto-F-50x66.jpg]]></small_image_url>
  </user>
    <book>
  <id type="integer">466539</id>
  <isbn>9781400063</isbn>
  <isbn13 nil="true"></isbn13>
  <text_reviews_count type="integer">874</text_reviews_count>
  <title>
    <![CDATA[Away]]>
  </title>
  <image_url>http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1187475178m/466539.jpg</image_url>
  <small_image_url>http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1187475178s/466539.jpg</small_image_url>
  <link>http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/466539.Away</link>
  <average_rating>3.36</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>3373</ratings_count>
  <description>
    <![CDATA[Panoramic in scope, Away is the epic and intimate story of young Lillian Leyb, a dangerous innocent, an accidental heroine. When her family is destroyed in a Russian pogrom, Lillian comes to America alone, determined to make her way in a new land. When word comes that her daughter, Sophie, might still be alive, Lillian embarks on an odyssey that takes her from the world of the Yiddish theater on New York’s Lower East Side, to Seattle’s Jazz District, and up to Alaska, along the fabled Telegraph Trail toward Siberia. All of the qualities readers love in Amy Bloom’s work–her humor and wit, her elegant and irreverent language, her unflinching understanding of passion and the human heart–come together in the embrace of this brilliant novel, which is at once heartbreaking, romantic, and completely unforgettable.]]>
  </description>
  <published>2007</published>
</book>

    <rating>1</rating>
  <votes>1</votes>
  <spoiler_flag>false</spoiler_flag>
  <shelves>
        <shelf name="read" />
          </shelves>
  <recommended_for><![CDATA[]]></recommended_for>
  <recommended_by><![CDATA[]]></recommended_by>
  <read_at>Sat Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Sun Sep 28 14:29:11 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sun Nov 16 18:25:37 -0800 2008</date_updated>
  <read_count></read_count>
    <body><![CDATA[This book was recommended by a co-worker, and the premise sounded very interesting.  Unfortunately, I really disliked the writing style.  I found it very disjointed.  The narration also seemed kind of distant, and it gave very little insight into how the main character felt about the terrible things...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/34057099">more...</a>]]></body>
    
  <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/34057099]]></url>
  <link><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/34057099]]></link>
</review>
      <review>
  <id>19170533</id>
    <user>
    <id>789575</id>
    <name><![CDATA[Chai]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Brisbane, Australia]]></location>
    <link><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/789575-chai]]></link>
    <image_url><![CDATA[http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1200483300p3/789575.jpg]]></image_url>
    <small_image_url><![CDATA[http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1200483300p2/789575.jpg]]></small_image_url>
  </user>
    <book>
  <id type="integer">466539</id>
  <isbn>9781400063</isbn>
  <isbn13 nil="true"></isbn13>
  <text_reviews_count type="integer">874</text_reviews_count>
  <title>
    <![CDATA[Away]]>
  </title>
  <image_url>http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1187475178m/466539.jpg</image_url>
  <small_image_url>http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1187475178s/466539.jpg</small_image_url>
  <link>http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/466539.Away</link>
  <average_rating>3.36</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>3373</ratings_count>
  <description>
    <![CDATA[Panoramic in scope, Away is the epic and intimate story of young Lillian Leyb, a dangerous innocent, an accidental heroine. When her family is destroyed in a Russian pogrom, Lillian comes to America alone, determined to make her way in a new land. When word comes that her daughter, Sophie, might still be alive, Lillian embarks on an odyssey that takes her from the world of the Yiddish theater on New York’s Lower East Side, to Seattle’s Jazz District, and up to Alaska, along the fabled Telegraph Trail toward Siberia. All of the qualities readers love in Amy Bloom’s work–her humor and wit, her elegant and irreverent language, her unflinching understanding of passion and the human heart–come together in the embrace of this brilliant novel, which is at once heartbreaking, romantic, and completely unforgettable.]]>
  </description>
  <published>2007</published>
</book>

    <rating>2</rating>
  <votes>1</votes>
  <spoiler_flag>false</spoiler_flag>
  <shelves>
        <shelf name="read" />
            <shelf name="i-own" />
      </shelves>
  <recommended_for><![CDATA[]]></recommended_for>
  <recommended_by><![CDATA[]]></recommended_by>
  <read_at>Thu Apr 10 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Mon Mar 31 22:04:01 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon Mar 31 22:04:01 -0700 2008</date_updated>
  <read_count></read_count>
    <body><![CDATA[When I read some of Bloom's short stories, I wrote that I would have loved to have seen some of her short stories, fleshed out to be novels because I found her characters so unique and intriguing. Reading 'Away', I realise that even with the extra length of a novel to play with, Bloom still doesn't ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/19170533">more...</a>]]></body>
    
  <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/19170533]]></url>
  <link><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/19170533]]></link>
</review>
      <review>
  <id>18500796</id>
    <user>
    <id>908253</id>
    <name><![CDATA[Erelin]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[The United States]]></location>
    <link><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/908253-erelin]]></link>
    <image_url><![CDATA[http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1216175860p3/908253.jpg]]></image_url>
    <small_image_url><![CDATA[http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1216175860p2/908253.jpg]]></small_image_url>
  </user>
    <book>
  <id type="integer">466539</id>
  <isbn>9781400063</isbn>
  <isbn13 nil="true"></isbn13>
  <text_reviews_count type="integer">874</text_reviews_count>
  <title>
    <![CDATA[Away]]>
  </title>
  <image_url>http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1187475178m/466539.jpg</image_url>
  <small_image_url>http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1187475178s/466539.jpg</small_image_url>
  <link>http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/466539.Away</link>
  <average_rating>3.36</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>3373</ratings_count>
  <description>
    <![CDATA[Panoramic in scope, Away is the epic and intimate story of young Lillian Leyb, a dangerous innocent, an accidental heroine. When her family is destroyed in a Russian pogrom, Lillian comes to America alone, determined to make her way in a new land. When word comes that her daughter, Sophie, might still be alive, Lillian embarks on an odyssey that takes her from the world of the Yiddish theater on New York’s Lower East Side, to Seattle’s Jazz District, and up to Alaska, along the fabled Telegraph Trail toward Siberia. All of the qualities readers love in Amy Bloom’s work–her humor and wit, her elegant and irreverent language, her unflinching understanding of passion and the human heart–come together in the embrace of this brilliant novel, which is at once heartbreaking, romantic, and completely unforgettable.]]>
  </description>
  <published>2007</published>
</book>

    <rating>4</rating>
  <votes>1</votes>
  <spoiler_flag>false</spoiler_flag>
  <shelves>
        <shelf name="read" />
          </shelves>
  <recommended_for><![CDATA[]]></recommended_for>
  <recommended_by><![CDATA[]]></recommended_by>
  <read_at>Sat Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Mon Mar 24 08:02:05 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Tue Apr 01 10:16:06 -0700 2008</date_updated>
  <read_count></read_count>
    <body><![CDATA[Such a heartbreaking story written with Bloom's wonderful insight into the human heart! I read some reviews about this book saying that the journey the protagonist undertook in this book is not believable. What a load of crap! Anyone who has ever been a mother knows, that a mother will literally wal...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/18500796">more...</a>]]></body>
    
  <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/18500796]]></url>
  <link><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/18500796]]></link>
</review>
      <review>
  <id>11202616</id>
    <user>
    <id>216284</id>
    <name><![CDATA[Mark]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Pittsburgh, PA]]></location>
    <link><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/216284-mark]]></link>
    <image_url><![CDATA[http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1254348059p3/216284.jpg]]></image_url>
    <small_image_url><![CDATA[http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1254348059p2/216284.jpg]]></small_image_url>
  </user>
    <book>
  <id type="integer">217086</id>
  <isbn>1400063566</isbn>
  <isbn13>9781400063567</isbn13>
  <text_reviews_count type="integer">49</text_reviews_count>
  <title>
    <![CDATA[Away: A Novel]]>
  </title>
  <image_url>http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg</image_url>
  <small_image_url>http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg</small_image_url>
  <link>http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/217086.Away_A_Novel</link>
  <average_rating>3.36</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>3373</ratings_count>
  <description>
    <![CDATA[Panoramic in scope, Away is the epic and intimate story of young Lillian Leyb, a dangerous innocent, an accidental heroine. When her family is destroyed in a Russian pogrom, Lillian comes to America alone, determined to make her way in a new land. When word comes that her daughter, Sophie, might still be alive, Lillian embarks on an odyssey that takes her from the world of the Yiddish theater on New York’s Lower East Side, to Seattle’s Jazz District, and up to Alaska, along the fabled Telegraph Trail toward Siberia. All of the qualities readers love in Amy Bloom’s work–her humor and wit, her elegant and irreverent language, her unflinching understanding of passion and the human heart–come together in the embrace of this brilliant novel, which is at once heartbreaking, romantic, and completely unforgettable.<br/><br/>A sweeping epic in only 200 pages. The story of a young Jewish woman who escaped a pogrom in Russia to make her way to the United States, only to make her way back to Siberia to fnd her daughter who was presumed dead. From Russia to NY right up to Alaska and to the Bering Sea. This book brings you miles through time and history.<br/><br/>]]>
  </description>
  <published>2007</published>
</book>

    <rating>2</rating>
  <votes>3</votes>
  <spoiler_flag>false</spoiler_flag>
  <shelves>
        <shelf name="read" />
            <shelf name="books-i-just-couldnt-get-through" />
        <shelf name="fiction" />
        <shelf name="historical-fiction" />
      </shelves>
  <recommended_for><![CDATA[]]></recommended_for>
  <recommended_by><![CDATA[]]></recommended_by>
  <read_at>Thu Jul 03 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Fri Dec 28 23:10:50 -0800 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Tue Jul 15 11:10:18 -0700 2008</date_updated>
  <read_count></read_count>
    <body><![CDATA[I put this book on my list primarily because of several rave reviews from Goodreads friends. I made it to page 79, but it's going back to the library today. <br/><br/>The story itself was inventive and should have held my interest: Russian Jewish woman in the 1920s sees most of her family cruelly ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/11202616">more...</a>]]></body>
    
  <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/11202616]]></url>
  <link><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/11202616]]></link>
</review>
      <review>
  <id>8916859</id>
    <user>
    <id>266227</id>
    <name><![CDATA[Jennifer]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Waukegan, IL]]></location>
    <link><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/266227-jennifer]]></link>
    <image_url><![CDATA[http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1188673890p3/266227.jpg]]></image_url>
    <small_image_url><![CDATA[http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1188673890p2/266227.jpg]]></small_image_url>
  </user>
    <book>
  <id type="integer">466539</id>
  <isbn>9781400063</isbn>
  <isbn13 nil="true"></isbn13>
  <text_reviews_count type="integer">874</text_reviews_count>
  <title>
    <![CDATA[Away]]>
  </title>
  <image_url>http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1187475178m/466539.jpg</image_url>
  <small_image_url>http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1187475178s/466539.jpg</small_image_url>
  <link>http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/466539.Away</link>
  <average_rating>3.36</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>3373</ratings_count>
  <description>
    <![CDATA[Panoramic in scope, Away is the epic and intimate story of young Lillian Leyb, a dangerous innocent, an accidental heroine. When her family is destroyed in a Russian pogrom, Lillian comes to America alone, determined to make her way in a new land. When word comes that her daughter, Sophie, might still be alive, Lillian embarks on an odyssey that takes her from the world of the Yiddish theater on New York’s Lower East Side, to Seattle’s Jazz District, and up to Alaska, along the fabled Telegraph Trail toward Siberia. All of the qualities readers love in Amy Bloom’s work–her humor and wit, her elegant and irreverent language, her unflinching understanding of passion and the human heart–come together in the embrace of this brilliant novel, which is at once heartbreaking, romantic, and completely unforgettable.]]>
  </description>
  <published>2007</published>
</book>

    <rating>5</rating>
  <votes>1</votes>
  <spoiler_flag>false</spoiler_flag>
  <shelves>
        <shelf name="read" />
          </shelves>
  <recommended_for><![CDATA[those who like stories of immigration, reinvention, and quests ]]></recommended_for>
  <recommended_by><![CDATA[]]></recommended_by>
  <read_at>Thu Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
  <date_added>Sat Nov 10 05:46:39 -0800 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Fri Nov 16 06:58:46 -0800 2007</date_updated>
  <read_count></read_count>
    <body><![CDATA[Amy Bloom's novel grabbed me from the very beginning and elicited a mixture of emotions including, &quot;Damm.  Why can't I write like this?&quot;  It's the story of Lillian Leyb's journey through many worlds in the United States of the 20's--the Yiddish theatre scene in New York, the back alleys of...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/8916859">more...</a>]]></body>
    
  <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/8916859]]></url>
  <link><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/8916859]]></link>
</review>
      <review>
  <id>5184221</id>
    <user>
    <id>254975</id>
    <name><![CDATA[Emily]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[The United States]]></location>
    <link><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/254975-emily]]></link>
    <image_url><![CDATA[http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1192221867p3/254975.jpg]]></image_url>
    <small_image_url><![CDATA[http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1192221867p2/254975.jpg]]></small_image_url>
  </user>
    <book>
  <id type="integer">466539</id>
  <isbn>9781400063</isbn>
  <isbn13 nil="true"></isbn13>
  <text_reviews_count type="integer">874</text_reviews_count>
  <title>
    <![CDATA[Away]]>
  </title>
  <image_url>http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1187475178m/466539.jpg</image_url>
  <small_image_url>http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1187475178s/466539.jpg</small_image_url>
  <link>http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/466539.Away</link>
  <average_rating>3.36</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>3373</ratings_count>
  <description>
    <![CDATA[Panoramic in scope, Away is the epic and intimate story of young Lillian Leyb, a dangerous innocent, an accidental heroine. When her family is destroyed in a Russian pogrom, Lillian comes to America alone, determined to make her way in a new land. When word comes that her daughter, Sophie, might still be alive, Lillian embarks on an odyssey that takes her from the world of the Yiddish theater on New York’s Lower East Side, to Seattle’s Jazz District, and up to Alaska, along the fabled Telegraph Trail toward Siberia. All of the qualities readers love in Amy Bloom’s work–her humor and wit, her elegant and irreverent language, her unflinching understanding of passion and the human heart–come together in the embrace of this brilliant novel, which is at once heartbreaking, romantic, and completely unforgettable.]]>
  </description>
  <published>2007</published>
</book>

    <rating>3</rating>
  <votes>1</votes>
  <spoiler_flag>false</spoiler_flag>
  <shelves>
        <shelf name="read" />
          </shelves>
  <recommended_for><![CDATA[]]></recommended_for>
  <recommended_by><![CDATA[]]></recommended_by>
  <read_at></read_at>
  <date_added>Mon Aug 27 13:16:36 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sat Jan 12 13:21:12 -0800 2008</date_updated>
  <read_count></read_count>
    <body><![CDATA[I enjoyed this book, but the story was a lot rougher around the edges than I anticipated. That said, I really enjoyed Amy Bloom's narrative style. Some passages are truly poignant and beautiful. Others are very raw. But that's true of Lillian's life. The reviews call Lillian a heroine; I'm not sure ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5184221">more...</a>]]></body>
    
  <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5184221]]></url>
  <link><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5184221]]></link>
</review>
      <review>
  <id>9483708</id>
    <user>
    <id>561949</id>
    <name><![CDATA[Kara]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Sacramento, CA]]></location>
    <link><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/561949-kara]]></link>
    <image_url><![CDATA[http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1192847931p3/561949.jpg]]></image_url>
    <small_image_url><![CDATA[http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1192847931p2/561949.jpg]]></small_image_url>
  </user>
    <book>
  <id type="integer">466539</id>
  <isbn>9781400063</isbn>
  <isbn13 nil="true"></isbn13>
  <text_reviews_count type="integer">874</text_reviews_count>
  <title>
    <![CDATA[Away]]>
  </title>
  <image_url>http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1187475178m/466539.jpg</image_url>
  <small_image_url>http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1187475178s/466539.jpg</small_image_url>
  <link>http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/466539.Away</link>
  <average_rating>3.36</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>3373</ratings_count>
  <description>
    <![CDATA[Panoramic in scope, Away is the epic and intimate story of young Lillian Leyb, a dangerous innocent, an accidental heroine. When her family is destroyed in a Russian pogrom, Lillian comes to America alone, determined to make her way in a new land. When word comes that her daughter, Sophie, might still be alive, Lillian embarks on an odyssey that takes her from the world of the Yiddish theater on New York’s Lower East Side, to Seattle’s Jazz District, and up to Alaska, along the fabled Telegraph Trail toward Siberia. All of the qualities readers love in Amy Bloom’s work–her humor and wit, her elegant and irreverent language, her unflinching understanding of passion and the human heart–come together in the embrace of this brilliant novel, which is at once heartbreaking, romantic, and completely unforgettable.]]>
  </description>
  <published>2007</published>
</book>

    <rating>3</rating>
  <votes>1</votes>
  <spoiler_flag>false</spoiler_flag>
  <shelves>
        <shelf name="read" />
          </shelves>
  <recommended_for><![CDATA[People who don't mind suspending disbelief to get to women's prison scenes]]></recommended_for>
  <recommended_by><![CDATA[]]></recommended_by>
  <read_at>Thu Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
  <date_added>Sat Nov 24 09:56:18 -0800 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sat Nov 24 10:01:18 -0800 2007</date_updated>
  <read_count></read_count>
    <body><![CDATA[So, there are 74 reviews of this book, and the ones I read are pretty glowing.  I didn't think it was <em>bad</em>, but it was incredibly strange.  When you open up the first chapter and discover that you are reading about a Jewish immigrant to New York in the 1920s, it doesn't necessarily follow that she'll...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/9483708">more...</a>]]></body>
    
  <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/9483708]]></url>
  <link><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/9483708]]></link>
</review>
      <review>
  <id>5950682</id>
    <user>
    <id>222412</id>
    <name><![CDATA[Beverly]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[The United States]]></location>
    <link><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/222412-beverly]]></link>
    <image_url><![CDATA[http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1185456284p3/222412.jpg]]></image_url>
    <small_image_url><![CDATA[http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1185456284p2/222412.jpg]]></small_image_url>
  </user>
    <book>
  <id type="integer">466539</id>
  <isbn>9781400063</isbn>
  <isbn13 nil="true"></isbn13>
  <text_reviews_count type="integer">874</text_reviews_count>
  <title>
    <![CDATA[Away]]>
  </title>
  <image_url>http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1187475178m/466539.jpg</image_url>
  <small_image_url>http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1187475178s/466539.jpg</small_image_url>
  <link>http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/466539.Away</link>
  <average_rating>3.36</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>3373</ratings_count>
  <description>
    <![CDATA[Panoramic in scope, Away is the epic and intimate story of young Lillian Leyb, a dangerous innocent, an accidental heroine. When her family is destroyed in a Russian pogrom, Lillian comes to America alone, determined to make her way in a new land. When word comes that her daughter, Sophie, might still be alive, Lillian embarks on an odyssey that takes her from the world of the Yiddish theater on New York’s Lower East Side, to Seattle’s Jazz District, and up to Alaska, along the fabled Telegraph Trail toward Siberia. All of the qualities readers love in Amy Bloom’s work–her humor and wit, her elegant and irreverent language, her unflinching understanding of passion and the human heart–come together in the embrace of this brilliant novel, which is at once heartbreaking, romantic, and completely unforgettable.]]>
  </description>
  <published>2007</published>
</book>

    <rating>5</rating>
  <votes>1</votes>
  <spoiler_flag>false</spoiler_flag>
  <shelves>
        <shelf name="read" />
          </shelves>
  <recommended_for><![CDATA[]]></recommended_for>
  <recommended_by><![CDATA[]]></recommended_by>
  <read_at>Sat Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
  <date_added>Sun Sep 09 13:20:31 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sun Sep 09 13:26:03 -0700 2007</date_updated>
  <read_count></read_count>
    <body><![CDATA[The voice in this novel is impeccable.  The main character, Lillian, is so human that I feel I *really* do know her.  Her adventure gets moving in the second half of the book, and the novel changes from a compelling story of an immigrant escaping to safety to an un-put-downable tale of Lillian's str...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5950682">more...</a>]]></body>
    
  <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5950682]]></url>
  <link><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5950682]]></link>
</review>
      <review>
  <id>5594389</id>
    <user>
    <id>339871</id>
    <name><![CDATA[Sundry]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Acton, CA]]></location>
    <link><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/339871-sundry]]></link>
    <image_url><![CDATA[http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1189547371p3/339871.jpg]]></image_url>
    <small_image_url><![CDATA[http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1189547371p2/339871.jpg]]></small_image_url>
  </user>
    <book>
  <id type="integer">466539</id>
  <isbn>9781400063</isbn>
  <isbn13 nil="true"></isbn13>
  <text_reviews_count type="integer">874</text_reviews_count>
  <title>
    <![CDATA[Away]]>
  </title>
  <image_url>http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1187475178m/466539.jpg</image_url>
  <small_image_url>http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1187475178s/466539.jpg</small_image_url>
  <link>http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/466539.Away</link>
  <average_rating>3.36</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>3373</ratings_count>
  <description>
    <![CDATA[Panoramic in scope, Away is the epic and intimate story of young Lillian Leyb, a dangerous innocent, an accidental heroine. When her family is destroyed in a Russian pogrom, Lillian comes to America alone, determined to make her way in a new land. When word comes that her daughter, Sophie, might still be alive, Lillian embarks on an odyssey that takes her from the world of the Yiddish theater on New York’s Lower East Side, to Seattle’s Jazz District, and up to Alaska, along the fabled Telegraph Trail toward Siberia. All of the qualities readers love in Amy Bloom’s work–her humor and wit, her elegant and irreverent language, her unflinching understanding of passion and the human heart–come together in the embrace of this brilliant novel, which is at once heartbreaking, romantic, and completely unforgettable.]]>
  </description>
  <published>2007</published>
</book>

    <rating>5</rating>
  <votes>1</votes>
  <spoiler_flag>false</spoiler_flag>
  <shelves>
        <shelf name="read" />
          </shelves>
  <recommended_for><![CDATA[]]></recommended_for>
  <recommended_by><![CDATA[]]></recommended_by>
  <read_at>Sat Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
  <date_added>Mon Sep 03 14:06:47 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Wed Sep 19 07:14:55 -0700 2007</date_updated>
  <read_count></read_count>
    <body><![CDATA[Oh my gosh.  My only fear about reviewing this book is that nothing can probably live up to your expectations if I tell you how much I love it. It is right up there with The History of Love.  <br/><br/>It could be partly that I am always interested in stories about people who are not middle- or up...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5594389">more...</a>]]></body>
    
  <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5594389]]></url>
  <link><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5594389]]></link>
</review>
    </reviews>
  <popular_shelves>
          <shelf name="to-read" />
          <shelf name="currently-reading" />
          <shelf name="fiction" />
          <shelf name="historical-fiction" />
          <shelf name="book-club" />
          <shelf name="historicalfiction" />
          <shelf name="historical" />
      </popular_shelves>
  <book_links>
    <book_link>
  <id>8</id>
  <name><![CDATA[WorldCat]]></name>
  <link>http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=217086</link>
</book_link>
  </book_links>
</book>
</GoodreadsResponse>