Alina Adams
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Here's what I've been doing recently:
January 2026: Happy new year! The big news for the start of 2026 is that the audiobook of “My Mother’s Secret: A Novel of the Jewish Autonomous Region” is finally available via Amazon, and priced at only $0.99 cents, at that! Snap it up now!
We’ve also got yet another rave review for “Super Soap Scenes: A Time Capsule of Daytime Drama’s Greatest Moments” and a YouTube interview with me talking all things soapy.
Thank you to Jewish Community Voice for including “Go On Pretending” in their good book to keep winter’s chill away round up, and to Judith Magazine for running my essay wondering why, if the Hollywood blacklist of the 1950s was wrong, the modern day one is alright?
Lots to watch, listen, read and think about this month. Make sure to let me know how you feel about it all!
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Go On Pretending
Go On Pretending spans three generations of women navigating the tides of history, from the segregated 1950s America to the fall of the USSR and the rise of revolutionary Rojava. The story begins with Rose Janowitz, a pioneer in the golden age of television, who hides a radical past and a secret romance with Jonas Cain, an African-American leading man. As the narrative unfolds, Rose's daughter, Emma Kagan, returns to the US during the era of glasnost, facing the collapse of the Soviet Union and searching for belonging. Finally, in 2012, Libby, Rose's granddaughter, joins the Women's Revolution in Rojava, Syria, unearthing long-buried family secrets amid the chaos of war.
I talk "Go On Pretending" with Jewish Women's Archive. Click to view!
I write many kinds of books:
I am fiftysomething years old, and I still haven’t decided who I want to be when I grow up – or what kinds of books I want to write. So I keep trying it all! Click below and tell me what your favorite genre is – and what I should be doing with my life!
