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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

https://www.goodreads.com/marciemax

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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: 4.07 · 273 ratings · 138 reviews · 3 distinct works • Similar authors

	Em's Awful Good Fortune 3.94 avg rating — 238 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 4.97 avg rating — 35 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) 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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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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Marcie Maxfield liked Susan's review of JewGirl: "As a member of the anti-racism group Marcie refers to frequently in her memoir JewGirl the content runs close to my heart. The group started as an educational and consciousness-raising experiment that would help a group of middle-aged “white ladies” " Read more of this review »
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Marcie Maxfield liked Nancy Murphy's review of JewGirl: "Marcie Maxfield’s new book has the charged title JewGirl. I say that because, as she explains, you can call yourself a Jew if you are one, but not if you are not. Then you should call someone Jewish or a Jewish person. I knew that already. Sadly, man" Read more of this review »
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