Jennifer S. Brown talks to Lilith about her new historical coming-of-age novel, “The Whisper Sister,” and the universal, timeless feeling of displacement experienced by Jews across generations.
Daphne Kalotay talks to Lilith about “The Archivists,” loss, and what lies beneath the surface.
Shirley Russak Wachtel talks to Lilith about how grief and betrayal threaten to destroy what were once unbreakable bonds in her novel A Castle in Brooklyn.
Renée Rosen talks to Lilith about the ways in which she adhered to the facts—and the important reasons why she didn’t in her novel about the life of Estée Lauder.
Elyssa Friedland talks to Lilith’s Yona Zeldis McDonough about The Most Likely Club and the enduring power of female friendships.
Anne Burt talks to Lilith about her debut novel, The Dig, and her character’s struggle to reconcile her own ambitions while remaining loyal to her beloved, idealistic brother.
How the novel “Swimming With Ghosts” makes waves.
Author Meryl Ain talks to Lilith about twins, bloodlines, and Jewish identity in her post-Holocaust novel, “Shadows We Carry.”
Author Penny Jackson talks to Lilith about why she loves the short story form and her recent collection, “My Daughter’s Boyfriends.”
The way two very different women find common ground is at the heart and soul of the novel Never Meant to Meet You and its two authors—one white, the other Black—talk to Yona Zeldis McDonough about how they came together to write it.
