My First Copies of Skating With the Statue of Liberty Arrive!
Something amazing has happened—the first copies of my new book, Skating With the Statue of Liberty came in the mail!
As it happened, they arrived in the middle of a freak spring snowstorm, so it is really lucky that I was home to rescue them before the boxes got soaking wet. Here are the boxes, rescued from the storm.
And here’s what was in the boxes!
It was a very hard book to write, so much harder than my first novel. I struggled for years. I essentially wrote two completely different earlier novels and discarded them. And now it is real.
It will start being sold in stores on April 12.
Skating With the Statue of Liberty is the sequel to my debut novel, Black Radishes. It continues the story of Gustave Becker as he arrives in New York in 1942 as a refugee from Nazi-occupied France. Black Radishes was inspired by my father’s childhood. So is Skating With the Statue of Liberty, to some extent.
So both books are dedicated to my father, Jean-Pierre Meyer, with great love. He was able to read Black Radishes.
This one is for him too.