Love and Other Ruins - Softcover

Tulchinsky, Karen X.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1554830893 ISBN 13: 9781554830893

Publisher: Insomniac Press, 2012

Synopsis

The sequel to Karen X. Tulchinsky’s much-praised first novel, Love Ruins Everything, picks up the story four months later as the characters prepare for the approach of the Millennium. Over the course of the year 1999, Nomi Rabinovitch and her lover, Julie Sakamoto, negotiate the joy and pain of a long-distance relationship; Nomi’s cousin Henry devotes more energy to AIDS activism, even as he must cope with intense treatments as his health declines; and Solly and Belle, Henry’s estranged parents, are drawn closer by their shared love for their son. And Bubbe, aged somewhere between 92 and 97, might be hard of hearing, but she’s certainly not blind to the crazy events swirling around her. A joyful, hilarious, and often very touching story of love, pain, activism, and family, Love and Other Ruins offers readers another chance to spend time with the delightfully engaging Nomi Rabinovitch and her eccentric friends and relatives.

About this title

About the Author:

Karen X. Tulchinsky is an award-winning novelist and screenwriter. Her first book, the collection of stories In Her Nature, won the VanCity Book Prize. Her latest novel, The Five Books of Moses Lapinsky, won the 2008 One Book, One Vancouver prize and was a finalist for the Toronto Book Award. She teaches creative writing at the University of British Columbia.

From Booklist:

At last! The sequel to Love Ruins Everything (1998), Tulchinsky's laugh-out-loud novel of Jewish Canadians. Ditzy lesbian Nomi, mourning the loss of the girlfriend who dumped her, is front and center again, along with HIV-positive cousin Henry and beautiful Julie, Nomi's new love interest, unfortunately many miles away, now that Nomi is back in San Francisco. Nomi's affair is experiencing the comic and awful bumps (and, via phone sex, grinds) of long-distance relationships. Henry's health has diminished, and his Jewish Mafia dad, Solly, who has taken up with Henry's mom again, has moved in with Henry and his lover, Roger. Oh, yes, and the story of the century--that the U.S. government developed and disseminated HIV--is about to break with the new millennium. Tulchinsky opts less for guffaws than poignant sighs this time, preferring to focus on character development--and what characters, given Nomi's extended family--and leaving her audience eager for more of Nomi, Henry, and the story of the century. Whitney Scott
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About this edition

• Publisher: Insomniac Press
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1554830893
• ISBN 13: 9781554830893
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 470