Today it is great to welcome Uvi Poznansky, author of Apart From Love.
First, could you tell us what your book is about?
My novel, Apart From Love, is an
intimate peek into the life of a uniquely strange family: Natasha, the
accomplished pianist, has been stricken with early-onset Alzheimer’s. Her
ex-husband Lenny has never told their son Ben, who left home ten years ago, about
her situation. At the same time he, Lenny, has been carrying on a love affair
with a young redhead, who bears a striking physical resemblance to his
wife--but unlike her, is uneducated, direct and unrefined. This is how things
stand at this moment, the moment of Ben’s return to his childhood home, and to
a contentious relationship with his father.
My novel, Apart From Love, is an
intimate peek into the life of a uniquely strange family: Natasha, the
accomplished pianist, has been stricken with early-onset Alzheimer’s. Her
ex-husband Lenny has never told their son Ben, who left home ten years ago, about
her situation. At the same time he, Lenny, has been carrying on a love affair
with a young redhead, who bears a striking physical resemblance to his
wife--but unlike her, is uneducated, direct and unrefined. This is how things
stand at this moment, the moment of Ben’s return to his childhood home, and to
a contentious relationship with his father.
The story is told from two points of
view, Ben’s and Anita’s, which gives me an opportunity to illustrate how the
same events, seen from different angles and through difference experiences in
life, are interpreted in an entirely different way.
