Becoming Sarah
A Novel
By Diane Botnick
Published by She Writes Press
Distributed to trade by Simon & Schuster
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Diane Botnick’s Becoming Sarah is the rare book I finished and wanted to immediately start reading all over again. Lush with figurative language, but spare in mood, this finely written novel mines the depths of an identity forged in deprivation but redeemed through resilience, love, and the lessons of loss. An impressive debut!
Barbara Stark-Nemon, author of Even in Darkness and Hard Cider
A prism-like gaze at the jewel of motherhood, with its sharp edges and smooth opaque surfaces, Becoming Sarah keeps churning through several generations of Jewish women, who strive to understand each other and themselves beneath the shadows of the Holocaust. Every sentence is meticulously written and not a word wasted.
Suzzy Roche – singer with The Roches and author of The Town Crazy
Becoming Sarah by Diane Botnick is a sweeping generational saga, told in oblique yet powerful prose. From Sarah's birth in Auschwitz through many generations of daughters stretching into the future, Botnick shows us the slowly uncoiling effects of motherlessness, persecution, and displacement and how love weaves, struggles, and sometimes triumphs through it all.
Helen Benedict, author of The Good Deed and Wolf Season
Becoming Sarah by Diane Botnick is a sweeping generational saga, told in oblique yet powerful prose. From Sarah's birth in Auschwitz through many generations of daughters stretching into the future, Botnick shows us the slowly uncoiling effects of motherlessness, persecution, and displacement and how love weaves, struggles, and sometimes triumphs through it all.
Helen Benedict, author of The Good Deed and Wolf Season
