A Leak in the Heart: Tales from a Woman's Life

Tales from a Woman's Life

Author: Faye Moskowitz

Twenty-four autobiographical essays insightfully reflect the vulnerability of growing up in small-town Jackson, Michigan, during the 1930s and 1940s as part of a puzzled and unassimilated Jewish Orthodox family.

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These are twenty-four autobiographical story-essays, witty, vulnerable, and wise, about growing up part of a puzzled and unassimilated Orthodox Jewish family in a Michigan small-town in the 1930s and '40s and about the wider world of marriage, children, teaching and writing after that rich beginning.

About the Author

Moskowitz is a guest commentator for "All Things Considered" and a contributor to The Washington Post and to The New York Times "Hers" column. She is a director of and teacher at The Edmund Burke School.