Description: Praise for Sons and Daughters of Ease and Plenty : "Weird and wonderful . . . Ausubel's writing, melancholy and fine, shines in illuminating everyday scenes of life. . . . Even the throwaway details are terrific." -- The New York Times "Diffuse and elegiac." -- The New Yorker "A timely, sophisticated tale [that] explores what happens when a charmed life loses its luster." -- O, The Oprah Magazine "Empty bank accounts. Goods taken for granted now gone. A familial fall from grace. An end to stability. Sons and Daughters of Ease and Plenty is this summer's much-raved about new release, and with good reason. Pick this up if you want an imaginative read with a dash of drama and some deep insight on wealth and class in America." -- USA Today "If there's a novelist up to the task of charming a reader into submission, it's Ramona Ausubel, who writes heartfelt, quirky fiction with winsome prose." -- Los Angeles Times "Ramona Ausubel's sparkling second novel, Sons and Daughters of Ease and Plenty , is packed with wisdoms . . . [this] glorious work will surely confirm her as a vibrant, memorable voice in contemporary American letters." -- San Francisco Chronicle "Devilishly imaginative." -- Vanity Fair "Ausubel charts the unfolding crisis with tenderness, wit and a sly understanding of wealth and its limitations." -- People "Ausubel's often whimsical prose is in top form yet again as she imbues the story with her signature touch of magic. This one's just lovely." -- Elle "A wealthy family loses, quite suddenly, its fortune. And with the money goes the decorum. What drama ensues is in the pleasure of reading Ausubel's lyrical prose." -- Travel + Leisure Praise for A Guide to Being Born : "Each story in this collection finds a way to record the tensions between the corporeal and the invisible, the forces that animate us but ultimately can't be dissected, our anti-anatomies. The dismay of coming to the final page is easily combated by following the example of Ausubel's characters and beginning all over again." -- The New York Times Book Review "Aggressively imaginative." -- The New York Times "These stories reminded me of branches full of cherry blossoms: fresh, delicate, beautiful, expressive, otherworldly. I eagerly read from one story to the next." --Aimee Bender, author of The Color Master and The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake

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