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...Malcolm: It was inspired by a very true story that happened in my husband’s family. He did have an aunt whose parents went to Shanghai and completely reinvented themselves. It was Hemingway who said all good fiction is autobiographical—I didn’t realize until the novel was finished how much...
...Malcolm: A big part of the second half of the book is that Madeline discovers the true story of her past, her father’s decision to abandon their Jewish heritage, and what impact that has on her own life. Madeline in some ways lives a parallel life to her father. She ends up getting caught up in the Kennedy investigation of the Mafia. I’ve been calling it “The Thornbirds” meets “the Godfather...
...Malcolm: If someone’s serious about getting published, never give up. From the time I started thinking about writing this novel to the time I saw it in print was 10 years, and that’s not an unusual story...
...scope of “Silent Lies,” the first novel by Harvard Law graduate Mary Lee Malcolm, is breathtaking...
...Malcolm sweeps her protagonist through both World Wars, the Hungarian revolution, and the beginning of the Chinese Civil War. He is seduced at the age of 14 and blackmailed by Shanghai gangsters. He commits murder and adultery, renounces Judaism, and loses both real and foster family to violence...