Palo Alto Patch November 4, 2014: Inspired by the author’s childhood in South Africa, this harrowing narrative exposes readers to a part of history largely overlooked—that the vanguard of the white South African anti-apartheid movement was heavily Jewish… Neville Frankel’s newest novel is a sweeping family tale unfolding...
Read MoreSan Francisco Chronicle by Michael Rosen October 31, 2014: Neville Frankel was standing in line at the Apartheid Museum in Johannesburg when he saw a group of teenagers pointing and laughing at something. Disturbed and a bit curious, Frankel approached the object, and discovered that it was a...
Read MoreOctober 4, 2013: Neville Frankel, author of Bloodlines, will visit Tidewater as one of the Lee and Bernard Jaffe* Family Jewish Book Festival’s presenters at the Simon Family JCC. A relative of Bill and Sharon Nusbaum’s, Frankel’s ties to Tidewater include his wife, Marlene, who was raised...
Read MoreJewish News Virginia September 30, 2013: The book took 10 years to write — partially because its author is a top-scoring wealth manager in the Boston area and because he is a passionate painter in his spare time. It also took so long because Bloodlines, an engrossing...
Read MoreJuly 8 2013: Frankel’s second novel is a tense, expansive family yarn unfolding against the backdrop of violent South African apartheid. Much like the author, central character Steven Green was born in South Africa yet raised in America. Green spent his youth in Boston, mourning his...
Read MoreKirkus Indie Review June 25, 2013: From author Frankel (The Third Power), a novel about a family fractured by apartheid and a son who struggles to piece everything together. Having left South Africa at a young age, Steven Green grew up in America under the cloud of a...
Read MoreThe Jewish Advocate by Susie Davidson January 2013: It was a busy few days for the Frankel family. During a Jan. 17 private launch at the Boston Public Library (BPL) for his son, Neville’s new book Bloodlines, Freddy Frankel read poems about growing up white in apartheid South Africa. Three...
Read MoreThe Boston Globe by Jan Gardner January 12, 2013: Neville D. Frankel, who immigrated to Boston from Johannesburg with his family when he was 14, didn’t return to his native country for 38 years. By then, apartheid had ended. He returned several times more, researching his novel “Bloodlines,”...
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