Meet Allison Amend, author of Stations West
Book discussion, signing, and refreshments
Secaucus Public Library, New Jersey

WHEN:               Friday, April 30, 2010, 7 - 9 p.m.

WHERE:             Secaucus Public Library
1379 Paterson Plank Road, Secaucus, NJ 07094
                         Directions:  www.secaucus.bccls.org, njtransit.com

HOSTED BY:     The Turner Syndrome Foundation, Inc.,
a nonprofit organization
PO Box 726, Holmdel, NJ 07733
Tel: 800-594-4585


COST: Donations payable to TSF

Allison’s essay, “Alone on a Path Shared by Many”, recently published in the New York Times, (January 31, 2010), shares her intimately personal experience of living with Turner Syndrome, a condition that affects 1 in 2000 females.  "But for now, I miss the children I'll never give birth to as intensely as I miss the characters in a book after the last page is turned.  I love them dearly, and yet they never existed."

Praise for Stations West (LSU Press, 2010)
Oklahoma is a forgotten territory of “Indians, outlaws and immigrants” when its first Jewish settler, Boggy Haurowitz, arrives in 1859. Full of expectations, he finds the untamed landscape a formidable foe, its landscape rugged, its resources strained.
Four generations of Haurowitzes, intertwined with a family of Swedish immigrants, struggle against the Territory’s “insatiable appetite.” The challenges of creating a home amid betrayals, nature’s vagaries, and burgeoning statehood prove too great. Each generation in turn succumbs to the overwhelming lure of the transcontinental railroad, and each returns home to find the landscape of his youth, like himself, changed beyond recognition, his family utterly transformed. 
Dramatic and lyrical, Allison Amend’s first novel, steeped in the history and lore of Oklahoma Territory, tells an unforgettable multi-generational—and very American—story of Jewish pioneers, their adopted family, and the challenges they face. Amid the founding of the West, Stations West’s generations struggle to forge and maintain their identities as Jews, as immigrants, and as Americans.

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