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In Radiant Daughter, award-winning novelist Patricia Grossman follows a Czech-American family for twenty-seven years, beginning in suburban Chicago in 1969 and ending in Brooklyn, in seaside Little Odessa, in 1996. Though the novel begins as a traditional assimilation story immigrant parents, native children, and the conflicts one might expectit evolves into a highly particular and harrowing tale surrounding the descent of Elise Blazek, the family's brightest star. Radiant Daughter is also a story of translationbetween generations, from the Czech of Irena and Stepan, to the American of the children, and finally to the Russian that is Elise's academic specialty.

Radiant Daughter A Novel

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      Publisher: Northwestern University Press
      Publication Date: 3/30/2010 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780810151994, 978-0810151994
      ISBN10: 0810151995

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      Book Synopsis
      In Radiant Daughter, award-winning novelist Patricia Grossman follows a Czech-American family for twenty-seven years, beginning in suburban Chicago in 1969 and ending in Brooklyn, in seaside Little Odessa, in 1996. Though the novel begins as a traditional assimilation story immigrant parents, native children, and the conflicts one might expectit evolves into a highly particular and harrowing tale surrounding the descent of Elise Blazek, the family's brightest star. Radiant Daughter is also a story of translationbetween generations, from the Czech of Irena and Stepan, to the American of the children, and finally to the Russian that is Elise's academic specialty.

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