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

by Faye Moskowitz

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0879236590
• ISBN13: 9780879236595
• Release Date: January 1985
• Publisher: David R. Godine Publisher
• Length: 161 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.0" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

Sharply-written and often astonishing tales

Moskowitz's gift lies in telling what seem like small tales from an ordinary life, a life busy with living and dying, though by the time one is done reading, one sees she has caught the deep resonance within things. I think the word "tales" in the subtitle--a word Moskowitz has used for at least one other of her books as well--is a way of speaking to the ways in which these stories straddle the border between memoir, with its intimacy, and fiction, with its artistic shaping. The PW review above is nuts. I wish more of Moskowitz's work were in print. Get this!