My next novel, JERUSALEM MAIDEN, will be published by William Morrow (an imprint of HarperCollins) in June 2011.
Described as "The Red Tent” meets “A Thousand Splendid Suns,” the novel depicts a woman’s struggle for self-expression clashes with her society’s religious dictates.
Even before coming out of the gate, the novel makes a splash: The manuscript was named semi-finalist in Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award--out of close to 10,000 entries!
AND, an excerpt, "The Maiden and the Messiah," was named in May 2010 a finalist for the Eric Hoffer Short Prose Award.(Stay tuned)
To read an excerpt from JERUSALEM MAIDEN, please view:
http://www.taliacarner.com/jerusalem_maiden.html