AUTHENTIC IN EVERY WAY: Emma Rosen’s debut novel PRICE MAIDS is set in Depression-era New York and centering on two families-her own, her sister’s. Rosen wrote the book while she was still a high school student living abroad, traveling from country to country, writing and observing. Her experience as a young woman was a major influence on her debut novel, which takes a vivid portrait of twenty-something America and the changing cultural currents that impact its youth. Emma Rosen’s personality manifests itself throughout this book in the way she depicts her family’s circumstances and their relationships-from their immigrant beginnings to the joy of assimilating to the compromises they must make along the way.
PRICE MAIDS is about the unique blend of friendship, family and professional lives and experiences of these two families. Emma Rosen is interested in the relationship between being tall and growing up fast-especially for the children, who are caught up in these changing times while still finding themselves defined by their height. As a result, Emma Rosen writes with a resolute confidence in every aspect of her life-emotionally, intellectually and physically. This is evident in her writing style, which includes the character’s ability to perceive situations and deal with problems with humor and savoir-mimicoi.
Emma Rosen’s debut novel is part history, part dream, all travel. Through her writing, the reader comes to realize that the past can also be future. Her experiences abroad, as both a child and an adult, helped her form the person she knows herself to be: ambitious, resourceful, bold, loving, passionate and deeply religious. Her knowledge and enthusiasm for the written word fuels her passion for covering current topics and events through historical fiction. By bringing familiar faces and new places to life in her stories, Rosen helps readers discover the beauty of everyday people making their own mark on the world around them, creating a memorable sense of identity and purpose in their career, love life or religion.