{"product_id":"youve-told-me-before-paperback-softback-9780299354442","title":"You've Told Me Before (Paperback \/ softback) 9780299354442","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eYou've Told Me Before\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eJennifer Moses (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780299354442\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 30 September 2025\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e206 pages\u003cbr\u003e21.6 x 14 x 1.6 cm, 0.454 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Moses creates characters who are flummoxed and struggling, whether with their souls, tragedy, family, loneliness, or neighbors. Throughout, her voice is breathtaking. It carries us through time and is as palpable and real as her characters. The reader follows it, enchanted.\" - S.L. Wisenberg, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Adventures of Cancer Bitch\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Moses has the great writer's gift: she deftly peels back the skin of ordinary lives - the follies, the griefs, the passing ecstasies - to reveal the tremors of yearning beneath.\" - Benjamin Balint, author of \u003ci\u003eBruno Schulz\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e \"I haven't laughed so hard or as guiltily at my people's misfortunes, missteps, and misadventures since the first time I read Cynthia Ozick's \"Envy or, Yiddish in America.\" The things Moses writes about in this impossible-to-put-down collection are either true or true enough, and were I not feeling so guilty, believe me, I'd be laughing much, much louder.\" - Paul Goldberg, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Dissident\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSometimes hilarious, sometimes sad, and always compelling, the stories in this collection explore the many manifestations of being Jewish in a modern and largely secular world. Jennifer Anne Moses creates characters, mostly American, who are struggling with love, relationships, faith, tradition, and most of all family and the ties that bind. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e A professor of Jewish literature buys a lake house in the Adirondacks with the aim of enjoying it with her husband, dogs, and grown sons, only to discover that her new neighbor is a sexist, dog-hating, and deeply antisemitic bully. The editor of a magazine devoted to lost languages resents the popularity of a younger, less sophisticated novelist, who happens to have been her student. A young woman tries to find her way after her fiancé calls off the wedding. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e With the contradictions, yearnings, imperfections, and longing for grace that beset all of us, these characters reach their own epiphanies - with results that are by turns breathtaking and heartbreaking.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eYou'\u003cbr\u003eve Told Me Before \u003cbr\u003e The Jewish Wars \u003cbr\u003e Angels of the Lake \u003cbr\u003e The Charlotte Situation \u003cbr\u003e Every Blade of Grass Has an Angel That Bends Over It and Whispers, '\u003cbr\u003eGrow, Grow'\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e The Goy \u003cbr\u003e The Young People'\u003cbr\u003es Party \u003cbr\u003e Summer Rental \u003cbr\u003e The Children \u003cbr\u003e Mother \u003cbr\u003e The Dick \u003cbr\u003e The Second Wife \u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Wisconsin Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52530916786456,"sku":"9780299354442","price":13.76,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/youve-told-me-before-paperback-softback-9780299354442","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}