Books & Writing

Fiction

• Night Swim

  • 10th Anniversary Edition March 2023
  • The Story Plant
  • Paperback, Audio, Kindle, iBook
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• Strangers in Budapest

  • 2017
  • Algonquin Books
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• Women in Bed

  • 2013
  • Story Plant
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Nonfiction/Memoir

• Time to Make the Donuts

  • 2019
  • Lebhar-Friedman
  • Hardcover, Kindle
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• Alone Together: Love, Grief, and Comfort in the Time of Covid-19

  • 2020
  • Central Avenue Publishing
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Essays

"What I learned in middle school is the lesson all of us need right now"

WBUR Cognoscenti, February 2021

"My Father Helped Liberate Dachau. After He Saw The Worst In Humanity, He Refused To Remain Silent"

WBUR Cognoscenti, July 2020

"40 Years After My Bone Marrow Transplant, I'm Isolating Again. This Time, I'm Not Alone."

WBUR Cognoscenti, May 2020