Canadian Jewish Literary Award for memoir, and an Apple Books and Kirkus Review Best Book of 2019.
Her first book, the story collection The Best Place on Earth, won the Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature, and the Edward Lewis Wallant Award for Jewish Fiction.
The book was a New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice, was nominated for The Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award, and has been published internationally.
She’s the co-editor of the award-winning anthology Tongues: On Longing and Belonging Through Language. Tsabari teaches creative writing at The University of King’s College MFA and at Guelph MFA in Creative Writing. Her debut novel is Songs for the Brokenhearted.
Recently I asked the author about what she was reading. Tsabari's reply:
I have just finished two books since I always have at least two on the go, one in audio (for walking, driving, hanging laundry, etc.) and one to read in bed at the end of the day.Visit Ayelet Tsabari's website.
The audiobook was All Fours by Miranda July, read by her, which made it an extra treat. It's a bold, un-put-down-able book about being a woman in midlife, about sex and marriage and parenthood and art. I admit that it's only through this novel that I was introduced to July's brilliance and I can't believe it took me so long. I devoured it!
The second book was a memoir with the brilliant title, The Widow's Guide to Dead Bastards by Jessica Waite. It is the story of a woman whose beloved husband dies suddenly, leaving her to raise their 9-year-old child on her own. Over the following weeks, as she deals with the unpleasant formalities of death, she discovers shocking, unsettling secrets about her husband that make her question everything. It's beautiful, complex, honest memoir about grief and forgiveness. I found it both funny and deeply moving.
--Marshal Zeringue
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