I Was Amelia Earhart

By Jane Mendelsohn
Alfred A. Knopf, $18

ISBN 0-679-45054-8

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Review by Jill Neimark

Other firsts of note out this spring include I Was Amelia Earhart, by Jane Mendelsohn, in which the legendary navigator tells us what happened after she disappeared off the coast of New Guinea in 1937; Dance Real Slow, by Michael Grant Jaffe (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $20, 0-374-13466-9; Audio Renaissance, $16.95, 1-55927-385-2), in which a young single father struggles to balance the delicious joys of parenthood with the needs of his ex-wife and his new girlfriend; and In the Language of Love, by Diane Schoemperlen (Viking, $23.95, 0-670-86517-6), a Canadian first novel told in 100 collage-like chapters, recounting the ordinary and extraordinary life of one woman.


Jill Neimark is the author of the novel Blood Song.


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