Yona Zeldis McDonough
Enemies to lovers… on Hanukkah.
“Eight Nights of Flirting”–A Y.A. Read for the Season
Tag: Jewish fiction
A Novel Inspired by Irena Sendler, Heroine of the Warsaw Ghetto
Yona Zeldis McDonough
The Polish nurse who rescued Jewish children is fictionalized in Kelly Rimmer’s The Warsaw Orphan.
“Milk Fed:” A Tuna-Flavored Take on Sex, Life & Fiction
Shayna Goodman
Broder’s latest novel, Milk Fed, is a reclaiming of tuna salad identity. If tuna is obtrusively smelly, ethnically distinct, and unsexy, in Milk Fed, Broder gives it an overt and lively sexuality.
A Twist on Doctor-Patient Confidentiality
Yona Zeldis McDonough
Joyce’s story was inspired by the thousands of breast cancer patients I’ve had the honor of caring for. I used my observations to make Joyce’s journey as authentic and emotionally resonant as possible.
A Novelist Brings Jewish Women to the Forefront of Crime Stories
Yona Zeldis McDonough
“I wanted, and still want, to put Jewish women at the center of their own stories.”
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 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 »
What Did Your Grandparents Do to Mine?
Yona Zeldis McDonough
A Jewish-Polish friendship is haunted by the Holocaust in this new novel.
What It’s Like to Publish Your Debut Novel… at Age 90
Yona Zeldis McDonough
Fiction Editor Yona Zeldis McDonough talks to Rochelle Distelheim about what it feels like to have her debut novel published when she’s in her nineties.