Myla Goldberg is the author of the bestselling Bee Season, which was named a New York Times Notable Book in 2000 and made into a film, and, most recently, of Time's Magpie, a book of essays about Prague. Her short stories have appeared in Harper's, McSweeney's, and failbetter. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.
Brilliant. . . . A wonderfully courageous second novel. -Newsday Remarkable. . . . A historically credible account of the period just after America entered the First World War, when 'the Spanish Lady' laid waste to Boston and much of the rest of the country. -Salon Her second novel is of a piece with [Bee Season] in its invention and stylistic skill. . . . A warmhearted, unusual and intelligent consideration of a world about which few people know. -San Francisco Chronicle An engrossing look at how one young woman grows through personal losses at a time when so many lost so much. -The Philadelphia Inquirer