"Lenard-Cook weaves the stories of Hana Weissova and her family and Anna Cramer and her family in a seamless captivating novel."
"The best book I've read in years is Lisa Lenard-Cook's "Dissonance,""
"[A] novel that deserves attention. . . written in polished, impressive prose."
""Dissonance" is worth reading, and as such is a fine first fiction offering. Lenard-Cook is doing something right, and is one to watch."
"The descriptions of musical pieces are particularly beautiful, and many readers will be intrigued by discussions of various meanings of music...a gem of a debut novel."
"A short, uncomplicated read. . . The structure is neat. It's musical, as is fitting in a book about piano players. You could probably play it on a keyboard. The dissonance of the title is resolved into harmony. . . . It's as stuffed with 'important issues' as a custard pie is with calories."
""Dissonance" is lyrical, luminous and pitch-perfect."
." . . this beautifully written novel defies its apparent fate: It weaves through the history of the bomb and the Holocaust without feeling depressing. To my mind, it is everything a novel should be." Catherine Ryan Hyde, "Huffington Post""
When Anna Kramer, a Los Alamos piano teacher, inherits the journals and scores of composer Hana Weissova, she is mystified by this bequest from a woman she does not know. Hana’s music, however, soon begins to uncover forgotten emotions, while her journals, which begin in 1945 after she is released from a concentration camp, slowly reveal decades-old secrets that Anna and her family have kept buried.Dissonance is a quiet and dramatic novel that offers great emotional urgency and wisdom. It is bold in its scale, placing readers at different eras—in the concentration camp at Theresienstadt and in the scientific world of Los Alamos, New Mexico. With extraordinary sensitivity, the author unfolds the story of a woman musician inheriting the “score” of another woman’s life, reconciling its themes of self-discovery with the processes of self-discovery in her own life, and, finally, freeing imprisoned memory.
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