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  • Someone Should Know This Story

    by Merrill Joan Gerber ...
    "'Someone Should Know This Story' is both the name of this book and the wish of my heart," writes Merrill Joan Gerber in the introduction to this retrospective collection of twenty-five stories written over a period of four decades, many of which won awards and appeared in widely read periodicals such as The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Redbook, and Mademoiselle.Gerber takes her teacher Andrew Lytle ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Revelation at the Food Bank

    by Merrill Joan Gerber ...
    These powerful essays share critical moments of a writer's life: scenes from sixty years of passionate married love; suicides faced and suicide contemplated; trauma at the DMV; a night lost searching for a harpsichord in the mountains of Florence, Italy; the tale of a beloved cousin whose plane is shot down by Japanese Zeros; and a precious friendship between two women writers derailed by the ... Read more

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  • Old Mother, Little Cat

    by Merrill Joan Gerber ...
    Old Mother, Little Cat is a highly readable memoir of Gerber’s mother’s decline in health and how their relationship grew during this time, blended in with Gerber’s finding a kitten and her developing relationship with Max (the name she gives the kitten). ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • The Hysterectomy Waltz

    by Merrill Joan Gerber ...
    "It's truly powerful, and acrid, and barbed, and filled with wonderful, and unexpected, turns of phrase and above all it's shocking in its directness and understated anger and sadness and fear… it's an amazing piece of writing."-Cynthia OzickImagine being told before the age of forty that because you have an ovarian cyst, the surgeon wants to take out the "whole kit and caboodle." Imagine being ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Anna in the Afterlife

    by Merrill Joan Gerber ...
    "Once her dying got underway, Anna could not really complain about the way the process moved along." So begins this deftly amusing, wryly perceptive look at the dying of a feisty, funny ninety-year old woman. During the four days between her death and her burial --and with the unique perception she is allowed prior to her funeral--Anna discovers certain secrets her daughters have hidden from her. ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • Chattering Man

    by Merrill Joan Gerber ...
    Spanning the continent from Brooklyn and Miami to Pasadena and Berkeley, these stories and the characters who people them are as real as our own lives, and the reader is drawn into the essence of life in all its complexity and wonder. ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • An Antique Man

    by Merrill Joan Gerber ...
    This is the poignant story of a loving, gentle man, "antique" by virtue, "an antique man" by profession. It is the story of his lingering death, of his transcendent courage, of the agony and solitude of those who must watch-his wife and two daughters. It is everyone's story in that it tells in specific and particular terms the general human experience of love and loss, suffering and death. It is ... Read more

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  • Botticelli Blue Skies

    by Merrill Joan Gerber ...
    Gerber heads to Florence with her husband, a history professor taking a group of students. She goes in nervous, not knowing any Italian, but gradually starts to learn her way around Florence and other cities in Italy. ... Read more

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  • King of the World

    by Merrill Joan Gerber ...
    This shattering novel about wife and child abuse is a work of art that haunts the reader's memory. Merrill Joan Gerber reveals the love affair of Ginny and her sensitive but horribly destructive lover, Michael. The pair adopts a child that Michael both loves and abuses. ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • The Lady with the Moving Parts

    by Merrill Joan Gerber ...
    A moving, powerful story of women exchanging secrets and sexual advice in an encounter group. ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • You are Always Safe with Me

    by Merrill Joan Gerber ...
    In this powerful love story that takes place on a Turkish sailing vessel, Lily, a professor at a Florida college, finds herself required to be the companion of her newly widowed mother as they take a cruise along the Turkish coastline on a small sailing ketch. Expecting to endure, though not enjoy, this trip among her mother’s friends, Lily instead finds herself falling in love with Izak, the ... Read more

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  • The Kingdom of Brooklyn

    by Merrill Joan Gerber ...
    Winner of the Ribalow Prize from Hadassah Magazine, Merrill Joan Gerber superbly evokes an anguished child's faltering steps toward consciousness... Gerber has written often-and grippingly-of tormented families… but never as daringly as here."In this brutally candid, semiautobiographical novel, Gerber again (as in King of the World) corrosively delineates the heinous abuses inflicted in the name ... Read more

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