Marcia Fine's Books
May.01.2012
Edict of Explusion:31st of March, 1492...accused of ritual murder in Granada and not under jurisdiction of the Inquisition, the Church orders expulsion of all Jews and Marranos from Spain within four months.
Granada, Spain2 Ab 5252 (4 August, 1492) "Hermando, no, Please. Hanna's still a girl. She made a mistake. "My mother appealed to my father even as she, too, made...
Jan.26.2011
Driven by cataclysmic world events, the story encompasses the lives of three generations of women.
In Book One Paulina, the privileged daughter of aristocratic parents, reluctantly follows her driven businessman husband to America in 1929. From a vantage point in New York she endures a difficult marriage and...
Sep.30.2010
Our reluctant hero, Jean Rubin, is back for another round of dealing with with problems on every front. Married to absent-minded Maury, a physician fighting the managed care mess, their lives explode when their son brings home his pregnant girlfriend, Rosa, who disrupts the routine of the household.
Jean's professional life boils...
Sep.01.2010
Jean Rubin, a multi-tasker, has too much to do. She tries to find sanity in a world where environmental issues and political corruption make you laugh out loud. Wickedly funny!
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Apr.01.2010
Jean Rubin, a Women and Literature teacher at the community college, has three months to plan her twenty something daughter Lara's wedding to Gus, a young man from an extended Charleston family. Laurence Duvall, owner of Fashionista, the Scottsdale society paper that everyone reads, is harassing Jean. In his weekly column...
I indulged myself--finishing Paper Children in two days. Marcia Fine captured the deep essence of marriage, the way women have to suck back for survival and tradition. It's a gripping, elegant foray into a fleeting correspondence that sheds light on a time humanity should never, never forget. She's a writer worth following.”
—Renee Rivers, Associate Fiction Editor, Hayden's Ferry Review
About Marcia
Spending her formative years in South Florida, the only child of New York expatriates with a penchant for the Bohemian lifestyle, Marcia’s best friend was a good book.
In 2000 Marcia began to pursue her dream of writing. Having written two satires about the...
Connections
Causes Marcia Fine Supports
I support Rosie's House, a Musical Academy for Children, because they give 10,000 free music lessons every year. I am also interested in environmental green...
Marcia’s Favorite Books
Tortilla Curtain by T.C. Boyle, The Paris Wife by Paula McClain, Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides, Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon, The Glass Room by Simon...