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Marcie Maxfield

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Born

Detroit, The United States

Website

https://www.marciemaxfield.com

Genre

Contemporary, Memoir, Humor and Comedy

Influences

Junot Diaz
Cathy Park Hong

Member Since

May 2015

URL

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Marcie Maxfield is the author of Em's Awful Good Fortune, which received the NYC Big Book Award for Contemporary Novel; the Independent Author Network (IAN) Book of the Year Award in Women's Fiction; and the Foreword INDIES Silver Award in Humor. Her play Girls Together Always received an ENCORE! Producers' Award at the Hollywood Fringe Festival. From Detroit, Maxfield (née Blumberg) has lived in Europe and Asia and is based in Southern California. ...more

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Average rating: 4.09 · 297 ratings · 144 reviews · 4 distinct works • Similar authors

	Em's Awful Good Fortune 3.94 avg rating — 241 ratings — 6 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
	JewGirl: A Memoir On Being and Belonging 4.71 avg rating — 55 ratings — published 2025 — 3 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
	True Tales from The 90-Day Memoir: Mothers by Alan Watt, Rebecca Gold, Jessica Argyle (Goodreads Author) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — 2 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
	Em's Awful Good Fortune: A Novel 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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An Old Man's Darling

by Deborah K Shepherd

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Marcie Maxfield said: " This book is the best kind of memoir. It's honest and brave and a bit subversive–because it challenges what we think is an "acceptable" relationship. And yet, this story is universal: It's about love, how we can't control where we find it because it ...more "

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This book is the best kind of memoir. It's honest and brave and a bit subversive–because it challenges what we think is an "acceptable" relationship. And yet, this story is universal: It's about love, how we can't control where we find it because it ...more
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Marcie Maxfield and 4 other people liked Iris Rosen's review of JewGirl: A Memoir On Being and Belonging: "I loved this book, her sense of humor, her thoughts, her opinions. I also loved the Detroit references."
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Imagine sharing headspace with your old-world, overly opinionated (technically dead) buttinsky grandmother. The bold, creative vision of this book grabs the reader from the very beginning —Someone stabbed Daddy! Was it me or Grandma? — and never lets ...more
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Marcie Maxfield made a comment in the group Goodreads Librarians Group — Delete an entry topic " Hello, I was trying to update the cover on my forthcoming memoir JewGirl, but inadvertently added a second listing for my book, which comes out on Oct ...more "
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