Harriet Rochlin, Pioneer Jews and the Desert Dwellers Trilogy

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The Desert Dwellers Trilogy

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Critical Responses

"Best known for her social history Pioneer Jews: A New Life in the Far West, Harriet Rochlin has incorporated her meticulous research into this wonderful series of novels [The Reformer’s Apprentice: A Novel of Old San Francisco, The First Lady of Dos Cacahuates, and On Her Way Home]. Torn between family and freedom, tradition and individualism, Frieda Levie Goldson draws us into her tumultuous world. The lively characters that inhabit Frieda’s world keep us guessing as to what trouble they will tumble into next. Painted against the backdrop of old San Francisco and sun-bleached Dos Cacahuates with such precise detail, a reader could easily feel caught up in the history that built the American West."

Debra Rodensky
The Historical Novels Review, Issue 32, May 2005

"The Reformer's Apprentice, The First Lady of Dos Cacahuates, and On Her Way Home, are all by Harriet Rochlin. She writes about Jewish women in the West and her trilogy is fantastic. Her books are not only terrific writing, they introduce us to a time and a people — Jewish pioneers — who are not often thought of as westerners."

Jane Kirkpatrick
Winner of the Western Wrangler Award and author of 11 bestselling novels

"The author of the Desert Dweller trilogy, Harriet Rochlin, has carefully researched the stories of Southwestern Jews. She has brought together her findings in the form of an excellent ficitional account of the late 19th century events. These novels combine tragedy and humor in an appealing and unbeatable combination."

Dr. Morton I. Teicher
Founding dean of the Wurzeiler School of Social Work
Yeshiva University South Florida Jewish Journal

"This trilogy gallops along pausing only long enough to tumble its characters from high moral ground, and then reinstate them. Seldom is a book hot — with believable characters caught in dilemmas that feel utterly familiar — and historical, with an attention to detail that comes with years of archival research."

Cathy Luchetti
Children of the West: Family Life on the Frontier