The Slow Way Back A Novel Poet Judy Goldman s debut novel tells the moving story three generations of sisters in a Southern Jewish family The central story belongs to Thea who carries with her a painful memory from a childhoo
Poet Judy Goldman s debut novel tells the moving story three generations of sisters in a Southern Jewish family The central story belongs to Thea, who carries with her a painful memory from a childhood incident with her mother Years later, a packet of letters, written in Yiddish by Thea s grandmother to her sister, holds the mystery to her mother s anger and silence ThePoet Judy Goldman s debut novel tells the moving story three generations of sisters in a Southern Jewish family The central story belongs to Thea, who carries with her a painful memory from a childhood incident with her mother Years later, a packet of letters, written in Yiddish by Thea s grandmother to her sister, holds the mystery to her mother s anger and silence Thea s sister, Mickey, urges her not to translate them But Thea relies on her own instincts and begins to unravel the secrets of her family In doing so, she is able to face the sadness in her own life as well as a multitude of questions raised by the letters questions of marriage, sisters, and what it means to belong.
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Judy Goldman is the author of a new memoir, Losing My Sister published October 2012 Excerpts appeared in Real Simple Magazine and Drafthorse, an online journal She is also the author of two novels, Early Leaving and The Slow Way Back, as well as two books of poetry, Holding Back Winter and Wanting To Know the End.She has received the Sir Walter Raleigh Award for Fiction, the Mary Ruffin Poole Award for First Fiction, the Gerald Cable Poetry Prize, the Roanoke Chowan Prize for Poetry, the Oscar Arnold Young Prize for Poetry, and the Zoe Kincaid Brockman Prize for Poetry Her work has been published in many literary journals, including Kenyon Review, Southern Review, Ohio Review, Gettysburg Review, Shenandoah, and Prairie Schooner.Goldman s book reviews have appeared in The Washington Post and The Charlotte Observer She offers writing tips on her blog at judygoldman blog.Goldman lives with her husband in Charlotte, North Carolina.