Shiksa Goddess
10 best books like Shiksa Goddess (Wendy Wasserstein): Letters on an Elk Hunt by a Woman Homesteader, Amen, Amen, Amen: Memoir of a Girl Who Couldn't Stop Praying (Among Other Things), An Unfinished Marriage, First Comes Love, The Last Gift of Time: Life Beyond Sixty, Jennie: The Life of Lady Randolph Churchill, Vol 1: The Romantic Years 1854-95, No Saints Around Here: A Caregiver's Days, Edith Kermit Roosevelt: Portrait of a First Lady, Hold Love Strong, The Girl from Foreign: A Search for Shipwrecked Ancestors, Forgotten Histories, and a Sense of Home
Letters on an Elk Hunt by a Woman Homesteader
| Author | Elinore Pruitt Stewart |
| ISBN | 0803291124 |
A continuation of Letters of a Woman Homesteader, Letters on an Elk Hunt is set in the same corner of southwestern Wyoming, the time is the fall of 1914, and (despite the title) Mrs. Stewart is far less concerned with elk hunting than with people—old friends and new acquaintances—and with the land...
Amen, Amen, Amen: Memoir of a Girl Who Couldn't Stop Praying (Among Other Things)
| Author | Abby Sher |
| ISBN | 1416589457 |
Until the age of ten, Abby Sher was a happy child in a fun-loving, musical family. But when her father and favorite aunt pass away, Abby fills the void of her loss with rituals: kissing her father's picture over and over each night, washing her hands, counting her steps, and collecting sharp objects that...
| Author | Joan Anderson |
| ISBN | 0767908716 |
In this moving sequel to her national bestseller A Year by the Sea, Joan Anderson explores the challenges of rebuilding and renewing a marriage with her trademark candor, compassion, and insight.
With A Year by the Sea, Joan Anderson struck a chord in many tens of thousands of readers. Her brave...
| Author | Marion Winik |
| ISBN | 0679765557 |
A New York Times Notable Book of the Year
When Marion Winik fell in love with Tony Heubach during a wild Mardi Gras in New Orleans, her friends shook their heads. For starters, she was straight and he was gay. But Marion and Tony's impossible love turned out to be true enough to produce...
| Author | Carolyn G. Heilbrun |
When she was a young woman, distinguished author and critic Carolyn Heilbrun made a solemn resolution not to live past "three score years and ten." Taking her own life at the age of seventy, she reasoned, would give closure to a life well lived. But on the advent of her seventieth birthday she realized...
If she had simply been the mother of Winston Churchill, her place in history would have been assured. But the Brooklyn-born Jennie was also the most fascinating and desirable woman of her age, the toast and the scandal of two continents throughout her long life. Volume I, THE ROMANTIC YEARS, follows...
| Author | Susan Allen Toth |
| ISBN | 0816692866 |
When we promise “in sickness and in health,” it may be a mercy that we don’t know exactly what lies ahead. Forcing food on an increasingly recalcitrant spouse. Brushing his teeth. Watching someone you love more than ever slip away day by day. As her husband James’s Parkinson’s disease...
Edith Kermit Roosevelt: Portrait of a First Lady
| Author | Sylvia Jukes Morris |
| ISBN | 0375757686 |
Edith Kermit Carow grew up in New York City in the same circles as did Theodore Roosevelt. But only after TR's first wife died at age twenty-two did the childhood friends forge one of the most successful romantic and political partnerships in American history. Sylvia Jukes Morris's access to previously...
| Author | Matthew Aaron Goodman |
| ISBN | 1416562036 |
In this poignant tale of self-discovery, a young man struggles to survive the New York City housing projects in the face of familial, communal, and personal devastation. Born to a thirteen-year-old in the bathroom of his family's small apartment, Abraham Sing leton enters a world laden with the obstacles...
A search for shipwrecked ancestors, forgotten histories, and a sense of home
Fascinating and intimate, The Girl from Foreign is one woman's search for ancient family secrets that leads to an adventure in far-off lands. Sadia Shepard, the daughter of a white Protestant from Colorado and a...
| Author | Aharon Appelfeld |
| ISBN | 0805242805 |
A new novel from the award-winning, internationally acclaimed Israeli writer ("One of the greatest writers of the age" —The Guardian), a haunting, heartbreaking story of love and loss.
The ghetto in which the Jews have been confined is being liquidated by the Nazis, and eleven-year-old...
Girls on the Verge: Debutante Dips, Drive-Bys, and Other Initiations
| Author | Vendela Vida |
| ISBN | 0312263287 |
In a fascinating look at how young women are coming of age in America, Vendela Vida explores a variety of rituals that girls have adapted or created in order to leave their childhoods behind. Vida doesn't just observe the rituals, she actively participates in them, going as far as spending a week at UCLA...
The 188th Crybaby Brigade: A Skinny Jewish Kid from Chicago Fights Hezbollah
| Author | Joel Chasnoff |
| ISBN | 1416549323 |
Look at me. Do you see me? Do you see me in my olive-green uniform, beret, and shiny black boots? Do you see the assault rifle slung across my chest? Finally! I am the badass Israeli soldier at the side of the road, in sunglasses, forearms like bricks. And honestly - have you ever seen anything quite like me?...
Microthrills: True Stories from a Life of Small Highs
| Author | Wendy Spero |
| ISBN | 1594630194 |
Raised in Manhattan by her tiny sex-therapist mother and her two eccentric grandparents, Wendy Spero has always sought excitement in "microthrills," the small, strange highs that give her life meaning.
Her story begins in the one-bedroom, Upper East Side apartment she shared with her overly...
Wendy and the Lost Boys: The Uncommon Life of Wendy Wasserstein
| Author | Julie Salamon |
| ISBN | 1594202982 |
4 ½ stars, ½ star off because of the lack of humor within these pages
I’m completely wrung out after reading this book, and felt that way during my entire reading of it. More on that later.
But first: This is an excellent book. It’s well written and fascinating. It is exactly what...
| Author | Russell Baker |
| ISBN | 0517126117 |
In this sequel to GROWING UP, Russell Baker relates the striving of his early career and contrasts it to the country's sunny years under Truman, Eisenhower and Kennedy. Baker rose steadily, from newsboy to college paper, from police reporter to rewrite man, from White House correspondent to Washington...
Gap Year Girl: A Baby Boomer Adventure Across 21 Countries
| Author | Marianne C. Bohr |
| ISBN | 1631528203 |
For every reader with wanderlust, and Baby Boomers longing to hit the road, "Gap Year Girl: A Baby Boomer Adventure Across 21 Countries" is a pleasure to read.
"Gap Year Girl" is Marianne Bohr’s travel journal and memoir telling how she and her husband, Joe, retraced their the travels abroad...
Where She Came From: A Daughter's Search for Her Mother's History
| Author | Helen Epstein |
| ISBN | 0841914443 |
"Where She Came From" is a memoir in the form of a quest for personal and historical understanding -- a multi-generational saga with the sweep and emotional impact of a novel. After the death of her mother, Frances, in 1989, Helen Epstein set out to research and reconstruct the life of her mother and that...
Shaking the Family Tree: Blue Bloods, Black Sheep, and Other Obsessions of an Accidental Genealogist
| Author | Buzzy Jackson |
| ISBN | 1439112991 |
“WHO ARE YOU AND WHERE DO YOU COME FROM? ” As a historian, Buzzy Jackson thought she knew the answers to these simple questions—that is, until she took a look at her scrawny family tree. With a name like Jackson (the twentieth most common American surname), she knew she must have more relatives...
Three by Annie Dillard: Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, An American Childhood, The Writing Life
| Author | Annie Dillard |
| ISBN | 0060920645 |
I'm still in Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, and think I will stop for the time being when I reach the end. Too many other books flooding in, both from the library and my mad amazon spending spree.
I appreciate Annie Dillard's compendium of observation, the diverse and fascinating data that salts this book,...
I must have downloaded this Byliner Original for cheap or free back when it first came out, and in my Summer of Joan Didion it was the perfect thing to whet my appetite for the full-length biography that's out next week. Whet my appetite it did, and it was great to learn a bit more about Joan Didion and hear...
When Denise Roessle became a mother at 45, her long-held dream came true. She felt as if she were 19 again, the age at which she got pregnant out of wedlock and relinquished her newborn son for adoption. Suddenly, he was back — this stranger she had given birth to — and he wasn’t just searching for his...
| Author | Calvin Trillin |
| ISBN | 0374529744 |
A reissue of Calvin Trillin's memoir of his relationship with a brilliant but tragic Yale classmate that is also a rumination on social change in the 1950s and 1960s
Remembering Denny is perhaps Calvin Trillin's most inspired and powerful book: a memoir of a friendship, a work of investigative...
Mommies Who Drink: Sex, Drugs, and Other Distant Memories of an Ordinary Mom
| Author | Brett Paesel |
| ISBN | 0446578738 |
For young single women, every night is Ladies' Night. For Brett Paesel and her friends, Friday happy hour is all they get--if they can wrangle a babysitter. Like most mommies, they support each other through pregnancies, sleep deprivation, and the need to talk about it all. Instead of meeting at the...
