Can You See Me? [Hardcover]

Brodoff Ami Sands (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 276 pages
• Publisher: Textstream; 1 edition (August 1, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0738803669
• ISBN-13: 978-0738803661
• Product Dimensions: 5.5 x 1.2 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #6,071,821 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Ami Sands Brodoff is an award-winning novelist and short story author. Her latest novel, The White Space Between, about a mother and daughter grappling with the impact of the Holocaust, is the winner of the Canadian Jewish Book Award for fiction. It is a love song to Ami's adopted home city of Montreal and a love story. Her volume of thematically-linked stories, Bloodknots, about the ties that bind people together and the ones that unravel without warning, was a finalist for the Re-Lit Award, honoring the best work from the Indies in Canada. An excerpt of Ami's debut novel, Can You See Me? about a family struggling with schizophrenia, was nominated for the Pushcart Prize.

Ami has won fellowships to Yaddo, The Virginia Center of the Creative Arts, The St. James Cavalier Centre for Creativity in Malta, The Ragdale Foundation and the Julia and David Arts Foundation in Costa Rica.

Ami Sands Brodoff's fiction centers on characters en extremis. She believes people reveal their truest, deepest selves then they are up against it.

Ami is active in Montreal's literary community, teaching workshops, and serving on the Executive of the Quebec Writers' Association. She makes frequent trips back to her beloved birth-place New York City and misses it in her soul.

She is now at work on a new novel and lives in Montreal with her husband, children and Hollywood star of Bernese Mountain dog, Monty Booh, who by-the-way was the inspiration for one of the best loved characters in The White Space Between.

To learn more about Ami, to invite her to teach a workshop, or to chat with her directly, visit her website at Amisandsbrodoff.com and her blog chez-ami.blogspot.com

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

5.0 out of 5 stars Review excerpt from The Psychoanalytic Quarterly, July 2001, July 15, 2001

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Martin A. Silverman (Maplewood, N.J.) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Can You See Me? (Paperback)

"This is a moving novel about the intertwined lives of a brilliant young man who succumbs in adolescence to the ravages of schizophrenia and his devoted but bewildered younger sister, who suffers along with him from that time onward. It will be of interest to anyone who cares not merely about emotionally troubled individuals, but also about the others in their lives who are in their own way affected by the emotional problems that afflict them.

"Ms. Brodoff knows first-hand what she is writing about. This story has clearly emerged not only out of her creative imagination, but also out of her own personal experience.

"The reader is led on an odyssey that weaves back and forth between the tortured travails of Doren as he struggles with his illness and those of his sister Sarah, as she struggles with the impact of her brother's schizophrenia.

"As psychoanalysts, we cannot afford to give oursleves the luxury of ignoring the people in a patient's external world as we delve into his or her inner one. We can be grateful to authors like Brodoff for reminding us of what we need to do."

5.0 out of 5 stars "HEARTFELT,AMBITIOUS;...GENUINELY MOVING" PUB.WKLY. 10/18/99, February 1, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Can You See Me? (Hardcover)

Heartfelt, ambitious; one family's way of coping with the trauma, shame and secrecy of mental illness. A genuinely moving novel. (Publishers Weekly review, October 18, 1999)

4.0 out of 5 stars A beautifully written, poignant and evocative story., November 7, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Can You See Me? (Hardcover)

Just because of illness, a family's love for one of its own never waivers - it just becomes harder