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Stranger Than Memoir

Or: Half-hiding behind the guise of fiction. I wrote this novel last November, about two women who have been friends on and off since the age of seven. I loved writing it, mostly because I loved both...

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Rue & Care: An Excerpt

(These are excerpts from an unfinished novel draft from November 2010, working title: Rue & Care. The two narrators, Ruth and Caroline, have been friends on and off since the age of seven, each...

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Rue & Care: Excerpt #2

(These are excerpts from an unfinished novel draft, working title: Rue & Care. The two narrators, Ruth and Caroline, have been friends on and off since the age of seven, each the daughter of an...

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Flipping

7/2/11 The same five fights 1988-1999: You don’t love me enough. Prove it. Prove it some more. You’re not proving it very convincingly. In fact, you sound a little sarcastic. No, now nothing you do...

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Lucky 13

Thanks to my good friends at Tablet (especially producer Julie Subrin, host Sara Ivry, and illustrator Vanessa Davis), here’s a new podcast from me, featuring (of course) childhood misery, poor moral...

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GUEST POST: Sister From Another Shelter

I’ll Show You Mind if You Show Me Yours by Satia Renee Janice invited me to write something for her blog, something about the time I left home and lived for the summer from friend-to-friend, sometimes...

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I.

There are things I know about those years because I’ve written them down over and over ever since; like a monk transcribing a bible, I write my story to myself again and again. Let’s go back to...

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II.

After a few months in Bethesda, my father and mother and I moved to Potomac. This was a new development, rich in kids, all the houses of recent vintage. The children on the block played together, and I...

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