Memoirs of a Muse

Lara Vapnyaremigrated from Russia in 1994.There Are Jews in My Housewas nominated for a Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the New York Public Library Young Lions Fiction Award, and received the National Foundation for Jewish Culture's prize for Jewish Fiction by Emerging Writers. Her work has appeared inThe New York TimesandThe New Yorker,among other publications. She lives on Staten Island with her husband and two children. From the Hardcover edition.Vapnyar, Lara is the author of 'Memoirs of a Muse', published 2007 under ISBN 9781400077007 and ISBN 1400077001.