What Happened to Anna K

By Irina Reyn

Subjects: Fiction, women, Mothers and daughters, fiction, Adultery, Love stories, Russian Jews, Philadelphia (pa.), fiction, Fiction, Man-woman relationships, Married women

Description: Married unhappily to a prominent member of her tight-knit Russian-Jewish immigrant community in Queens, vivacious Anna K. engages in a reckless affair with an outsider on whom she has pinned fleeting hopes for freedom. Reimagines Tolstoy's classic tragedy, Anna Karenina, for our time.