Elisa Albert, Author . Free Press $18 (198p) ISBN 978-0-7432-9127-9
Titled to reflect the customary question asked at Passover, these 10 stories by debut writer Albert explore traditional Jewish rituals with youthful, irreverent exuberance as her characters transition into marriage and child-rearing. In "Everythi
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Elisa Albert, Author . Free Press $23 (288p) ISBN 978-0-7432-9129-3
When Dahlia Finger—a 29-year-old, pot-smoking, chronically underachieving Jewish-American princess—learns that she has brain cancer, the results are hilarious and heartbreaking in Albert’s superb first novel (following the story...
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Elisa Albert. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $23 (208p) ISBN 978-0-544-27373-3
Albert (The Book of Dahlia) applies a blistering tone to modern motherhood in this cri de coeur of a novel. Six-months-pregnant Ari couldn’t wait to leave Brooklyn for the faded glory of Utrecht, N.Y., and its affordable four-bedroom Italianate with
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Elisa Albert. Avid Reader, $28 (416p) ISBN 978-1-982167-86-8
Ascendant singer-songwriter Aviva Rosner navigates a bowdlerizing music industry, a judgmental Jewish family, and the Faustian prospect of “industrial fertility” in this bighearted and riotously funny performance from Albert (After Birth). To do so,
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