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Moriel Rothman-Zecher

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Moriel Rothman-Zecher is the author of the novels Before All the World (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2022), which was named an NPR Best Book of 2022, and Sadness Is a White Bird (Atria Books, 2018), which was a finalist for the Dayton Literary Peace Prize and the National Jewish Book Award, the winner of the Ohioana Book Award, and longlisted for the Center for Fiction's First Novel Prize. He is the recipient of the National Book Foundation '5 Under 35' honor, two MacDowell Fellowships for Literature, and a Wallis Annenberg Helix Fellowship for Yiddish Cultural Studies. Moriel's work has been published in The American Poetry Review, Barrelhouse, Colorado Review, The Common, The New York Times, The Paris Review's Daily, Runner's World, ZYZZYVA ...more

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	Sadness Is a White Bird 4.07 avg rating — 1,831 ratings — published 2018 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Fight of the Century: Writers Reflect on 100 Years of Landmark ACLU Cases by Michael Chabon (Editor), Ayelet Waldman (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Ann Patchett 4.22 avg rating — 1,521 ratings — published 2020 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Before All the World 4.08 avg rating — 168 ratings — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Cutleaf Reader: Vol. 2 by Keith Pilapil Lesmeister (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Denton Loving (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Kelly March (Editor) 4.67 avg rating — 6 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Un royaume d'olives et de cendres by Various, Michael Chabon (Editor), Ayelet Waldman (Goodreads Author) (Editor) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Oh, Haifa. City of glistering grime, smog hovering over foamy sea. Of blocky apartment buildings facing the coast, topped with white water tanks crowded together like flocks of squat storks. Of palm trees and pine trees and electric wires, twisting green and black toward the chalky beachfront and rows of factory smokestacks. The way you put it once, Laith, your voice warped to mimic a radio announcer: 'Welcome to Haifa: you may die an early and also agonizing carcinogenic death, but at least you'll have a killer view from your hospital room.”
― Moriel Rothman-Zecher, Sadness Is a White Bird

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“I am waiting for this starving land to open up and swallow me.”
― Moriel Rothman-Zecher, Sadness Is a White Bird

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I Found You by Lisa Jewell

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The Butterfly Garden (The Collector #1) by Dot Hutchison

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This is How It Always Is by Laurie Frankel

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6 votes, 10.5%

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