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I'm the author of ALL AFTERNOON, an IPPY Awards gold medal winner and reader-acclaimed novel about the selves we lose sight of and the courage it takes to find them again.

Before writing my novel, I had short stories published in The American Literary Review, The Baltimore Review, CRAFT Literary, and JewishFiction.com, and my articles have run in dozens of publications in the U.S. and abroad, including The New York Times, New York Magazine, House Beautiful, Cosmopolitan, and Hadassah. (Yep: I am both a “Cosmo Girl” AND a “Hadassah Lady.”)

I earned my BA in English from the University of Pennsylvania, and I was a Kathryn Gurfein Writing Fellow at Sarah Lawrence College, where I later taught fiction writing and workshops on overcoming writer’s ...more

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	All Afternoon: A Novel 4.47 avg rating — 187 ratings — 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
	Real Life 101: Almost Surviving Your First Year Out of College it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1989 — 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
	The Big Apple Business and Pleasure Guide: 501 Ways to Work Smarter, Play Harder, and Live Better in New York City by Muriel Siebert, Susan Kleinman (Goodreads Author) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating	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
	Real Life 101: The Graduate's Guide to Survival by Susan Kleinman (Goodreads Author), Madeleine Swain 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 1992	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
	Managing Your Child's Diabetes by Robert Wood Johnson, Sale Johnson, Susan Kleinman (Goodreads Author) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 1992 — 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

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THANK YOU IPPY JUDGES!

I’m super-excited to share that All Afternoon has been awarded a gold medal by the Independent Book Publishers Awards committee (IPPY Awards).

Like most writers I know, I write for my READERS—people who pick a book up hoping to be entertained or educated… to have their thinking challenged or their world expanded… to escape, for a little while, from this crazy world of ours… to enjoy a good story in Read more of this blog post »

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“her up, it only made her heart break for Deborah. The world, she wanted to warn her well-behaved daughter, wasn’t especially kind to girls who always followed the rules.”
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