Amy Waldman Archives - The Gilmore Guide to Books https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/reviews/authors/amy-waldman/ Connecting Books and Readers One Review at a Time Fri, 20 Sep 2019 01:08:12 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/cropped-books-on-table-2-150x150.jpg Amy Waldman Archives - The Gilmore Guide to Books https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/reviews/authors/amy-waldman/ 32 32 38398750 A Door in the Earth https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2019/09/a-door-in-the-earth/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2019/09/a-door-in-the-earth/#comments Fri, 20 Sep 2019 07:35:15 +0000 http://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=13226 Parveen is like most young women her age—graduating college, but not sure what she wants to do with her degree in medical anthropology. Until she reads a memoir, written by a man who goes to Afghanistan and after a traumatic incident that left a woman dead from giving birth, founds and funds a women’s health […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2019/09/a-door-in-the-earth/feed/ 2 13226 The Submission by Amy Waldman https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2012/07/the-submission/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2012/07/the-submission/#comments Fri, 13 Jul 2012 08:02:49 +0000 http://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=53   An anonymous competition to design the 9/11 memorial in NYC. A panel of 13 judges including the widow of a man who died in one of the towers. A winner who turns out to be a Muslim. With these straightforward facts begins a book that is anything but straightforward: Amy Waldman’s debut novel, The Submission. […]

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