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Here's what I've been doing recently:
May 2026: Last month was more personal than usual, as I visited my daughter in college… and mused about how she was a chip off the old… failure? Read all about it, here.
If you’re here because you saw my two (!) separate mentions in “NY Magazine,” you are looking for my education site, NYC School Secrets. I was also quoted in “The NY Post” on school issues hitting families particularly hard this year.
Then there was this fun review of my latest book, “Greetings, Great Author: Emails From (and To) Book Marketing Scammers,” and a podcast appearance to talk all things “Guiding Light.”
Finally the audiobook of “My Mother’s Secret: A Novel of the Jewish Autonomous Region” is available via Amazon and FREE, at that! Snap it up now!
Happy spring, everybody!
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Go On Pretending
Go On Pretending spans three generations of women navigating the tides of history, from the segregated 1950s America to the fall of the USSR and the rise of revolutionary Rojava. The story begins with Rose Janowitz, a pioneer in the golden age of television, who hides a radical past and a secret romance with Jonas Cain, an African-American leading man. As the narrative unfolds, Rose's daughter, Emma Kagan, returns to the US during the era of glasnost, facing the collapse of the Soviet Union and searching for belonging. Finally, in 2012, Libby, Rose's granddaughter, joins the Women's Revolution in Rojava, Syria, unearthing long-buried family secrets amid the chaos of war.
I talk "Go On Pretending" with Jewish Women's Archive. Click to view!
I write many kinds of books:
I am fiftysomething years old, and I still haven’t decided who I want to be when I grow up – or what kinds of books I want to write. So I keep trying it all! Click below and tell me what your favorite genre is – and what I should be doing with my life!