by Janet Rosen
No photos of their own childhoods are displayed on the piano.
Tag: fiction
Female Friendship and Competition in a Novel of the 90s
Yona Zeldis McDonough
“I know what it’s like to feel hated and betrayed by a woman friend. I think we all do.”
Nazi-Occupied Normandy and a Family’s Wartime Secrets
Yona Zeldis McDonough
“Nationalism, for all its insistence on keeping like with like, inevitably tears families apart. Homes are bombed, children are separated from their parents. “
Anti-Semitism Among the WASP Elite
Kitty Zeldis
I could feel it in the manners, the mores, the very air around me. Vassar was a WASP institution and bastion, and I knew I didn’t entirely belong.
A Female Friendship From the Catskills to the Wider World
Yona Zeldis McDonough
As Alice Rosenthal's novel of friendship, Bess and Frima, unfolds, the menace of world war is growing, and Beth and Frima must grow up fast. Balancing love, ambition, religion, family, and politics, each young woman faces challenges she never imagined in her girlhood. Fiction Editor Yona Zeldis McDonough talks to author Alice Rosenthal about the personal history she mined to write this tender story.
What the Lilith Staff is Reading Now
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Welcome to another installment of this occasional recurring feature in which Lilith staffers reveal what books are on our nightstands, our e-readers and tucked in our bags for the commute.
I Couldn’t Divorce My Mother-in-Law
Penny Jackson
I do not know if Ida knows my name. She does not remember that her son Gary left me ten years ago for a twenty-two year old nurse at his hospital. I have seen Ida more often than I have seen my ex-husband, who has moved to Anchorage, Alaska and now has two sons with his second wife.
Submit to Lilith’s Fiction Contest!
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The magazine proudly spotlights both emerging and established writers. Winner receives $250 + publication. Deadline: 9/30/18.
A Novel of Barren Island, NYC’s Forgotten Glue Factory
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Told from the point-of-view of Marta Eisenstein Lane on the occasion of her 80th birthday, Carol Zoref’s novel Barren Island is the story of a long-forgotten factory island in New York’s Jamaica Bay, where the city’s dead horses and other large animals were rendered into glue and fertilizer from the mid-19th century until the 1930’s.
Isolated Mothers, Searching for Miracles
Yona Zeldis McDonough
The reader knows by page one of Queen for a Day that Mimi Slavitt’s three-year-old son is autistic, but if anyone told her, she wouldn’t listen, because she doesn’t want to know—until at last Danny’s behavior becomes so strange even she can’t ignore it. After her son’s diagnosis, Mimi finds herself in a world nearly… Read more »