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Jennifer Lang

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Born

Berkeley, The United States

Website

https://israelwriterstudio.com/

Genre

Memoir, Nonfiction

Influences

https://judyblume.com/ and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laura_I... an ...more

Member Since

September 2013

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American-French-Israeli hybrid; obsessed with identity, language, home, belonging

1995-today: stories in Parenting, Woman’s Day, Baltimore Review, Under the Sun, Barren Magazine, Citron Review, Coachella Review, Consequence Forum, NPR

MFA in Writing from Vermont College of Fine Arts; former Assistant Editor at Brevity Journal

Yogini, practicing since 1995, teaching since 2003, leads YogaProse

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AWARDS for Landed:
*Winner of Best Middle-or-Late-in-Life Coming-of-Age, Zibby Awards 2025
*Gold Book Award Winner, Literary Titan 2024
*Finalist for Adult Nonfiction, Wishing Shelf Book Awards 2024

AWARDS for Places We Left Behind:
*Finalist for Autobiography/Memoir, Foreword Review ...more

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Jennifer Lang said: " I adored City of Light and so wanted to devour this. Alas, it did not read as well, but the story of the advent of penicillin, the discovery of mold to make life-saving medicine, the big bucks behind it, the use of it in the US military, the roles of ...more "

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Jennifer Lang rated a book really liked it Miss Benson's Beetle by Rachel Joyce	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
Seldom does a book strike me as loud-out-loud funny or unique storytelling, but when it does, it lasts a long time. This book is one adventure after another with the least suspecting protagonist Margery Benson, a repressed 1950s schoolmarm who quits ...more
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Jennifer Lang rated a book really liked it Sisters of Fortune by Esther Chehebar (Goodreads Author)	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
A page-turning story of sisters and family dynamics and Jewish traditions. This is a coming-of-age of the sister who always does the right thing and tries to be the best daughter and sister and friend but who lacks fire in her belly. Until...
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Jennifer Lang rated a book it was amazing Pictures of My Desire by Caroline Goldberg Igra (Goodreads Author)	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
Caroline Goldberg Igra transported me to another world. The world of art, especially pieces lost or stolen during WWII. This is the story of three characters--Nate, Emily, and Julia--whose lives intersect in NYC. Their on-again, off-again relationshi ...more
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Born in the SF Bay Area, I grew up as a Reform Jew in a very non-Jewish small city in the 70s. I missed geography and math tests every Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, and my teachers never understood why. I so related to feeling like an outsider even t ...more
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A unique story of a young Jewish girl from NY who wants something different than the rest of her family, who yearns to break free from the way she grew up, and who makes it happen, first by dreaming then by trying then by doing. As a young woman, Mim ...more
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