Bøger af Michael Lowenthal

During World War I, seventeen-year-old Frieda Mintz secures a job at a Boston department store and strikes out on her own, escaping her repressive Jewish mother and marriage to a wealthy widower twice her age. Determined to find love on her own terms, she is intoxicated by her newfound freedom and the patriotic fervor of the day. That is, until a soldier reports her as his last sexual contact, sweeping her up in the government's wartime crusade against venereal disease. Quarantined in a detention center, Frieda finds in the Home's confines a group of brash, unforgettable women who help her see the way to a new kind of independence. Charity Girl is based on a little-known chapter in American history that saw fifteen thousand women across the nation incarcerated. Like When the Emperor Was Divine, Lowenthal's poignant, provocative novel will leave readers moved - and astonished by the shameful facts that inspired it.

A fiercely honest exploration of the risks and rewards of contemporary relationships - and hookups - Sex with Strangers embraces the power of attraction across the spectrum of passion and infatuation. In this collection, lust and loneliness drive a diverse cast of queer and straight characters into sometimes precarious entanglements.

In one of the first novels to explore the experience of gay men having a child through surrogacy, Michael Lowenthal writes passionately about marriages and mistakes, loyalty and betrayal, and about how our drive to create families can complicate the ones we already have.

How does someone, excluded from the only community he or she has ever known, go on living? Harvard student, Jeremy Stull lives with a devout Amish family to observe their faith and strict shunning of those who breach it. This is a novel exploring an age-old dilemma: individual desire versus the good of the group.