Yona Zeldis McDonough
“Naked at the Helm” takes on the second half of life.
“Naked at the Helm” takes on the second half of life.
I was hesitant to pick up In Love as a newlywed. I am superstitious enough to worry about inviting misfortune by way of acknowledging it. But when I stood under the chuppah last November and married my husband, I remember thinking about death.
Parents break sometimes, and we put ourselves back together. But if we never see any stories of other people doing it, it makes us feel like monsters.
You might not know who Jenny Pentland is, but if you read her new book, This Will Be Funny Later (Harper, $27.99), you’ll want to; the hilarious memoir, by turns scorching and poignant, reveals what’s like to have one of America’s funniest comedians—Roseanne Barr—for a mother.
“Life doesn’t throw curveballs at you. Life is the curveball.”
Julie Metz talks to Fiction Editor Yona Zeldis McDonough her new book Eve and Eva: A Search for My Mother’s Lost Childhood and What War Left Behind (Atria).
“Please do not constrict autistic people. We can only grow as much as the environment around us.”
Rachel Michelberg on caretaking, gender, and societal assumptions.
The book has helped the author and her family heal from shock and tragedy in many ways.
Lilith’s Fiction Editor Yona Zeldis McDonough speaks to memoirist and novelist Kathryn Harrison about her latest foray into family history, On Sunset.