Larry Zuckerman
Historical fiction, kept real
I write novels about independent-minded people who resist injustice and seek hope and strength through love
To my readers
You love historical fiction, which gives you the bygone everyday and thrusts you into moral dilemmas culled from the centuries. You put yourself in the story, wondering what you’d do if the stakes were peace or war, love or loneliness, reconciliation or shame, justice or persecution. It’s like trying on a costume.
But maybe you’re tired of characters whose halos never dim. You wonder how hero and heroine find undying love the nanosecond they meet, or how turbulent plots wind up as neat and smooth as a Marine’s bed. The past feels unlived in, though you’re told the muddy streets stink and that the nobility eats candied eel. Maybe that’s because the characters think and act as if they’d read yesterday’s op-eds in the New York Times.
Imagine the novels I’ve written for you. I portray men and women who dare to speak up, to live differently, which costs them. Maybe you know about that; so do I.
Like real people, my protagonists struggle with shame and self-doubt and get in their own way. They find hope and resilience through love, which they must earn and work to keep. Their conflicts have personal, cultural, and political meaning and stand for an entire society in miniature.
You know that world-in-a-drop-of-water approach from Tracy Chevalier (Girl with a Pearl Earring; A Single Thread), whose books you like. And as you do, I love Geraldine Brooks and Robert Harris, two of my favorite historical novelists.
I promise that my novels will give you historical fiction, kept real.
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