Julie Salamon

New York Times Bestselling Author

Kirkus May 8, 2019

“In this gripping account, former Wall Street Journal and New York Times critic Salamon adeptly reveals the parallel lives of the well-educated and privileged wife of the leader of the Palestinian Liberation Front and the successful, New York City-bred daughters of abductees Marilyn and Leon Klinghoffer. Salamon’s account of the strategizing of Palestinian, Israeli, and American diplomats, followed by the soldiers’ captures and subsequent escapes, are as engaging as a spy novel… An engrossing narrative of a notorious act of terror.”

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Kirkus (starred review)

“Using simple and sturdy phrases that belie the story’s sophistication, Salamon gives the journey-as-a-vehicle-to–self-discovery theme a poignancy that avoids schmaltz (no mean feat with puppies as protagonists). Weber’s primitive-style black-and-white illustrations add their own emotive power.”

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Mom Read It Review

“Mutt’s Promise is an unexpected book. It starts in a most idyllic setting, only to move pretty quickly into some heavy social issues. While the idea of migrant worker families is lightly touched on, it’s there, showing that this is not something that died out with The Grapes of Wrath. The heavier topic here is animal cruelty, most notably the kind of cruelty that takes place in puppy mills. Luna, a spunky little female pup, also deals with crushing depression and post-traumatic stress disorder from her time in the puppy mill. All of these topics are handled in an age-appropriate manner, framed within the animals’ story and using vocabulary that doesn’t try to sugar-coat what happens in these places, but makes the situation comprehensible to younger readers.”

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Tufts Magazine interview with Julie Salamon

“The hardest part of writing the book was cutting myself loose from reality, but when I did, I really started to have fun with it. I moved the story from the East Village to Washington Square Park, which is my neighborhood. When my kids were little, our family used to spend so much time there running around in the fountain, going to outdoor concerts, watching the guys play chess, people from different backgrounds coming together. The book became a way for me to celebrate the serendipity of friendship and the haphazard way communities form in cities like New York.”

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The Concord Monitor Review of Cat in the City

“This time of year brings out the child in all of us, and adult readers are often looking for a book to share with children they may not see often. Cat In the City is that kind of book, a warm tale well told…Weber’s colorful illustrations remind me of Maira Kalman’s – stylized and unfussy but full of life and movement and emotion.”

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