I was delighted to wake up to this review of Attic Wife by esteemed biographer Carl Rollyson in The Sun, a New York news outlet.
As I wrote the book and sought a publisher for it, many people cheered me along the way. Without the cooperation of Agnes’s descendants, as well as those of her husband by his second wife and of her aunt, Cecilia Baronovich Balenti, this book wouldn’t have been possible. However, there were also setbacks and discouragements. This kind of review makes it all worthwhile.
An excerpt:
After the first two paragraphs of Marcia Biederman’s riveting biography that reads like a mystery story, you may well be “hooked” too . . . When I say the story is symbolic, I mean it is about more than one person, more than about discrimination and prejudice and racial violence, or about the aftermath of the Klondike gold rush. It is above all a story about displacement and the disorienting divide between cultures and communities that Agnes is able to sometimes surmount and that sometimes overcomes her.
The entire review is here.
