Memoir
The Thanksgiving Trilogy exploits significant aspects of California: its vision of possibilities, its sense of exile and mobility, and its respect for the past -- aspects that have contributed greatly to the development of American culture as a whole. The personal dramas within these three novels are set firmly in the western coastal landscape of the continent.
Broder's "cycle of earth tales" is a tough and brilliant collection of fifteen short stories and fables . . .
Set in Prohibition era Michigan,Taking Care of Cleo is a gripping novel about love, family... and bootlegging.
What Do We Do With Our Dead?; A Meditation
Historical Fiction
History Shaped by the Small Battles of Hearth, Friendship, and Love
“Two Russian Bicycles” consists of two curiously related novellas prophetic of the future course of Russian and world history. Both, based on historical fact, reveal how the small battles of the hearth, friendship, and love shape history and underlie the effort to remain human in times bedeviled by a brutal destiny.
“Tolstoy’s Wife” depicts Sonya Tolstoy’s struggle for the love of her husband, Leo Tolstoy—a struggle intimately shaped by her belief in the values that inform Tolstoy’s great novels.
“The Sphynx of Kiev” focuses on the importance of Lenin's character and personal life in shaping the distinctive properties of the two Russian Revolutions at the beginning of the twentieth century.
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Fiction
In his book, “A Prayer for the Departed: Tales of a Family through the Decades of the Last Century” (ISBN 1461138930), Bill Broder honors the elders of his family through a series of short stories. As the youngest son, he acts as witness to the lives of his parents, his uncles and his aunts – lives steeped in the rich mix of a secular America and Jewish belief and ritual.