The Rescuer’s Path

Paula Friedman

“Exciting, physically vivid, and romantic”—Ursula K. Le Guin

When Malca Bernovski rides a horse off-trail 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’ birth child for her origins, this tale spans generations to delve urgent, timeless questions.

Additional praise for The Rescuer’s Path

“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, author of Wild and Torch

“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 and other novels of today's rural West

“Shaded by 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

Coming January 2012 from Plain View Press

ISBN: 978-1-935514-88-6 (200 pages, trade paperback). $15.95

For advance orders, email the author (see contact information) or contact Plain View Press.

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