Set in 1905 and 1906 on a Wisconsin commune populated by Russian Jews and gentiles fleeing czarist persecution, Milofsky's second novel (after Playing From Memory) draws on the socialist agrarian movement, Am Olam ("Eternal People"), founded by Jew
" . . . fascinating . . . vivid . . . [Eternal People] creatively mingles fact with fiction, educating us while entertaining us." --Jewish Journal of South Florida
"Milofsky has deliberately chosen to work in possibly the greatest, and certainly the noblest, tradition of the novel--the realistic tradition. . . . Milofsky is a sort of latter-day Garland." -- Stanley Elkin, author of The Living End