Tamar, my latest novel, awarded the silver medal for family saga fiction- Global Book Awards.

“Tamar by Sheldon Greene – full subtitle, A Historical Coming of Age Novel of a Jewish Native American Woman in Post-Civil War California – depicts the tumultuous journey of a Jewish/American Indian community who find themselves dispossessed of their ancestral land. The story intimately follows the leader of the community, Tamar, as she navigates such unprecedented events: the building of a railroad, settlers, war, and the relocation of her people to an industrialized world. An inspiring, visceral novel, Tamar will leave you breathless with its wholly unique perspective on this period of history. The dichotomy Greene creates between artificial America and Tamar’s community further illuminates life’s most fundamental modes of survival- self-sufficiency, community, love, and resilience – for a profoundly stirring work of historical fiction.”
-SelfPublishingReview.com

“I loved Tamar, Sheldon Greene’s latest novel, as I have loved his other books over the years. While eager to turn pages quickly to learn what would happen next in the evolving lives of Tamar and her Jewish Native American community, I chose to slow down, for I was enjoying Sheldon Greene’s writing so much. His evocative wording and imagery, his insights into the nuances of personality and relationships, his wonderful metaphors, some like lovely haikus, I read over several times. I put check marks at the top corner of many pages so that I could easily go back to read these sections over again. I have done that while reading all of Mr. Greene’s novels. The Epilogue, while satisfying because it brought closure to the lives of Tamar and her Binyan family community, was also moving in a different way. A conversation takes place over one hundred and forty years after the novel ends between a great grandson of Tamar and another man, both characters from three of Mr. Greene’s previous novels included in his “American Quartet”. The great grandson describes his forebears with generalities about them, for his and our ancestors aren’t fleshed out for us… we didn’t live with them. This touched me, for it shows how the real people, their personalities, the relevant contexts of their lived lives, begin to fade, disappear and are lost to us…as mine will be lost to future generations. Mr. Greene’s epilogue demonstrates this like no one else has in my experience. We tell some stories about these people, and yet, and yet. I highly recommend this novel and Mr. Greene’s other books to you.”
-Peter Bloom