No One Is Here Except All of Us (Riverhead)

We're pleased to present debut novelist Ramona Ausubel for a reading and signing of her beautiful and riveting novel No One Is Here Except All of Us.

"Here is a world created out of the most curious and beautiful remnants of our own: opera, suitcases, letters, rivers, daughters, strangers, and shovels. Ramona Ausubel cracks open the very idea of a book and fills its shell with a thing glimmering, thrilling, and new."
— Samantha Hunt, author of The Invention of Everything Else

"A special work of the imagination, an original gift, dark and light, and Ramona Ausubel colors it all with a glowing wisdom."
— Ron Carlson, author of Five Skies

"A wise, compassionate book that even in its darkest turns uplifts."
— Christine Schutt, National Book Award finalist for Florida and Pulitzer Prize finalist for All Souls

"Ausubel has written a riveting, otherworldly story about an all-too-real war and the transformative power of community."
— Library Journal

Ramona Ausubel grew up in Santa Fe, New Mexico. She holds an MFA from the University of California, Irvine where she won the Glenn Schaeffer Award in Fiction and served as editor of Faultline Journal of Art & Literature. Her work has been published in The New Yorker, One Story, The Paris Review Daily, and Best American Fantasy. Her work has also received special mentions in Best American Short Stories and Best American Nonrequired Reading. Ausubel was also a finalist for the Pushcart Prize. She lives in Santa Barbara, California.

Photo of the author by Twin Lens Images.

No One is Here Except All of Us (Hardcover)

By Ramona Ausubel

$26.95

ISBN-13: 9781594487941
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Riverhead Hardcover, 2/2012

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In 1939, the families in a remote Jewish village in Romania feel the war close in on them. Their tribe has moved and escaped for thousands of years- across oceans, deserts, and mountains-but now, it seems, there is nowhere else to go. Danger is imminent in every direction, yet the territory of imagination and belief is limitless. At the suggestion of an eleven-year-old girl and a mysterious stranger who has washed up on the riverbank, the villagers decide to reinvent the world: deny any relationship with the known and start over from scratch. Destiny is unwritten. Time and history are forgotten. Jobs, husbands, a child, are reassigned. And for years, there is boundless hope. But the real world continues to unfold alongside the imagined one, eventually overtaking it, and soon our narrator-the girl, grown into a young mother-must flee her village, move from one world to the next, to find her husband and save her children, and propel them toward a real and hopeful future. A beguiling, imaginative, inspiring story about the bigness of being alive as an individual, as a member of a tribe, and as a participant in history, "No One Is Here Except All Of Us" explores how we use storytelling to survive and shape our own truths. It marks the arrival of a major new literary talent.

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