“Laskin’s chronicle could have been written in tears,” said Edward Kosner in his Wall Street Journal review of The Family. “It is at once anguishing and inspiring.” The Family tells the story of the three branches of Laskin’s mother’s family:  one branch immigrated to the United States at the turn of the last century and founded the fabulous Maidenform Bra Company; one branch relocated to what was Palestine as idealistic Zionist pioneers; the third branch remained in Eastern Europe perished in the Holocaust.  Widely praised for it harrowing veracity and powerful prose, The Family was named a best book of the year by Kirkus, the Seattle Times, the Oregonian and the New York Public Library, and it won the Washington State Book Award in biography/memoir.

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Winner of the Washington State Book Award in 2011, The Long Way Home follows twelve men who were born in Europe, came to the United States in search of freedom and opportunity, and recrossed the Atlantic in uniform to fight in the Great War. Vivid and emotional, the book recounts how the crucible of war transformed the Ellis Island generation from immigrants into fiercely loyal American citizens.

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An award-winning classic of creative non-fiction, The Children’s Blizzard is the true story of an epic winter storm that hit the Upper Midwest on January 12, 1888. Laskin unfolds this blizzard of unprecedented suddenness and ferocity by focusing on half a dozen pioneer families – most of them immigrants from Germany and Scandinavia. Hailed by the Washington Post as “a vital addition to the lore of Western immigrant pioneering,” this national bestseller has sold over 100,000 copies and has been adopted in history and literature classes in high schools and colleges nationwide.

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The writers associated with the Partisan Review, including Mary McCarthy, Edmund Wilson, Robert Lowell, Elizabeth Hardwick, Diana and Lionel Trilling, and Hannah Arendt, were among the most brilliant – and contentious – intellectuals in American history. In this dazzling, sharply opinionated book, Laskin delves into the intersection between the private lives, politics and literary creations of this intense circle. Winner of the Washington State Book Award, Partisans brings to life an era when writers lived lives of passionate often self-destructive intensity.

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This cultural history of North American weather begins with the arrival of humans over the land bridge that connected Alaska and Siberia during the last ice age and ends with The Weather Channel. In between, Laskin covers how weather has influenced and interacted with American science, religion, war, politics, entertainment and news media. “Laskin has pulled off an amazing feat,” reports The Washington Post, “putting together a densely researched, fast-moving chronology…fascinating.”

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