The Rescuer's Path

When Malca Bernovski rides a horse offtrail in Nixon-era Washington DC, she discovers the wounded antiwar leader Gavin Hareen, prime suspect in the lethal bombing of an army truck. The budding love between the sheltered Malca, daughter of a Holocaust survivor, and the anguished, half-Syrian fugitive becomes a desperate struggle against injustice.

From the White House to the Rockies, from the Warsaw Ghetto to the post-9/11 search of the lovers' child for her origins, this tale spans generations to delve urgent, timeless questions.

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"Exciting, physically vivid, and romantic."
—Ursula K. Le Guin, National Book Award, author of The Dispossessed, Lavinia, and many others

"I could not stop reading this novel—I loved it!"
—Carole L. Glickfeld, Flannery O'Connor Award, author of Useful Gifts and Swimming Toward the Ocean

"Vivid, humane, and wise, The Rescuer's Path had me from its first line to its last."
—Cheryl Strayed, Pushcart Prize, author of Wild and Torch

"In a story of what it means to do the right thing, these characters will break your heart and put it back together again."
"Heather Sharfeddin, author of Damaged Goods

"Timely yet rich with history, this tale compels you to turn page after page. This is the book you can’t put down, the people you will remember, the vibrant story we all share."
—Carol Denney, activist, writer, satirist, Fiddlers for Peace

Paula Friedman's honors include Pushcart Prize nominations and OSPA, New Millennium Writings, and other awards and honors, as well as Centrum and Soapstone residencies and fellowships. Her short fiction and poetry have appeared in numerous print and online literary magazines and anthologies. Her books include the novel The Rescuer's Path (Plain View Press, 2012, 2018), her novel The Change Chronicles (Lillicat Publishers, 2018) and a poetry chapbook, Time and Other Details (Highlights Press, 2006). Ms. Friedman is an author and freelance book editor residing near Portland, Oregon. She has previously taught writing workshops in Hood River, Oregon, directed public relations for the Judah Magnes Museum in Berkeley, California, directed the international Rosenberg Award for Poems on the Jewish Experience, and founded the collective literary magazine The Open Cell. She has run poetry readings and writers workshops in the Bay Area, Paris, and elsewhere, and recently compiled an anthology of West Coast Jewish women's poetry. She holds an M.A. from San Francisco State University and a B.A. from Cornell University. A reunited birthmother and former welfare mother, she is active in peace and social justice issues and received the 2006 award of the Columbia River Fellowship for Peace.