“a revenge tale of extraordinary strategy and thoughtfulness.”
Here is a revenge tale of extraordinary strategy and thoughtfulness. In The Estate of Wormwood & Honey, the reader enters a real world generations and nations removed—my great-grandmother’s “Old Russia.” Though the journey of the justice-seeking hero to take and keep the catbird’s seat on his own bitter past leads through some excruciatingly familiar places in the human heart, in the end, this broad-spreading self-understanding is the vehicle to hope.
This Isn't Easy for Me
2014-12-11T14:29:47+00:00
Zofia Burr, Dean, George Mason University
"a revenge tale of extraordinary strategy and thoughtfulness.”
http://julianberengaut.com/testimonials/a-revenge-tale-of-extraordinary-strategy-and-thoughtfulness/
“a sweeping look at history, love and relationships, science …”
“In Julian Berengaut’s This Isn’t Easy for Me, two strangers—Sabine, a German physicist, and Renata, an economist and philanthropist—meet for tea, one with a confession, the other a proposition. What follows is not a novel, but a conversation—a conversation that becomes more than a novel. It is a sweeping look at history, love and relationships, science, mathematics, and, most importantly women. Berengaut has written Sabine and Renata with as much tenderness, respect, and understanding as any woman writer.”
This Isn't Easy for Me
2014-12-11T14:33:49+00:00
Jen Michalski, The Tide King and Could You Be With Her Now
"a sweeping look at history, love and relationships, science ..."
http://julianberengaut.com/testimonials/a-sweeping-look-at-history-love-and-relationships-science/
Gorgeous
"... the experience is a richly rewarding one, and the surprise ending is poignant without being sentimental. These mature, thoughtful women are unlike almost any others in popular contemporary literature, and their conversation—long, gorgeous, encompassing—is one of the most memorable in literature of the last 10 years.”
This Isn't Easy for Me
2014-12-11T14:26:12+00:00
Kirkus Reviews
"... their conversation—long, gorgeous, encompassing—is one of the most memorable in literature of the last 10 years."
http://julianberengaut.com/testimonials/gorgeous/
A tour de force
"the novel is without doubt a tour de force. The conversation between Sabine and Renata makes absorbing and fascinating reading."
This Isn't Easy for Me
2014-12-11T14:43:07+00:00
B. Morrison, Review
“the novel is without doubt a tour de force. The conversation between Sabine and Renata makes absorbing and fascinating reading.”
http://julianberengaut.com/testimonials/315/
from Lemony Snicket!
I salute thee: Julian Berengaut
This Isn't Easy for Me
2015-02-10T14:35:10+00:00
Daniel Handler, via Twitter
I salute thee: Julian Berengaut
http://julianberengaut.com/testimonials/from-lemony-snicket/
About the Author
Julian Berengaut was born in Poland and educated at universities in Warsaw, Jerusalem, Waltham, Massachusetts and Madison, Wisconsin. He worked for many years as an international debt negotiator.
His poetry and short stories have been published in Sententia, Everyday Genius, Wayfarer, and other journals. He is the author of two novels: The Estate of Wormwood and Honey and This Isn’t Easy for Me.
Currently, Julian resides in Bangkok, Thailand.
