In celebration of Jewish American Heritage Month in May, we are sharing books by authors who share their individual stories, experiences, and lives. Find our full collection of books here.
Like many six-year-olds, Mira Jacob’s half-Jewish, half-Indian son, Z, has questions about everything. Trying to answer him honestly, Mira has to think back to where she’s gotten her own answers: her most formative conversations about race, color, sexuality, and, of course, love.
From the New York Times-bestselling author of We Were the Lucky Ones, a propulsive and heart-wrenching story of a young woman entrusted with a boy’s life as World War II rages in Italy.
Inspired by family lore, a young writer embarks on an epic quest through the Argentine Andes in search of a heritage spanning hemispheres and centuries, from the Jewish Levant to turn-of-the-century trade routes in South America.
From Pulitzer Prize-winner Art Spiegelman comes a “rare glimpse inside the mind of a genius storyteller” (The Atlantic) and the artistic process that created Maus.
Acclaimed as “the most affecting and successful narrative ever done about the Holocaust ” (The Wall Street Journal). Tragic and comic by turns, it attains a new complexity of theme and a precision of thought new to comics and rare in any medium.
Maus ties together two powerful stories: Vladek’s harrowing take of survival against all odds, delineating the paradox of family life in the death camps, and the author’s account of his tortured relationship with his aging father. At every level this is the ultimate survivor’s tale—and that too of the children who somehow survive even the survivors.
In June 1972, the Pennsylvania State Police have some questions concerning a skeleton found at the bottom of a well in the Chicken Hill section of Pottstown. Who the skeleton was and how it got there were two of the long-held secrets kept by the residents who lived in the dilapidated neighborhood where immigrant Jews and African Americans lived side by side. As the residents’ stories overlap and deepen, it becomes clear how much the people who live on the margins of white, Christian America struggle and what they must do to survive.
A smoldering debut novel about a young mother in an Orthodox Jewish community of Los Angeles whose quest for authenticity erupts in a passionate affair following a night of wife swapping.
Finalist for the National Jewish Book Award; Longlisted for the National Book Award and the Andrew Carnegie Medal • Newly in love yet also newly grieving her father—a charming, brilliant, absentminded Jewish refugee—Schulz was left contending simultaneously with wild joy and terrible grief. Those twin experiences form the heart of Lost & Found, a profound meditation on the families that make us and the families we make.
In this extraordinary collection of short fiction, Jewish National Book Award finalist Tova Reich dives deep into the world of Orthodox Jewry—a world that her stories embrace with respect and affection while also poking at the faultlines in its unshakeable traditions.
Tracy Kidder, Pulitzer Prize-winning author, has passed away at age 80. Tracy Kidder’s books covered subjects as wide-ranging as global public health, computer science, education, construction, and homelessness, but they were all united by his trademark research and dogged reporting that provided the foundations for stories of real people, passionately committed to their work. In
For Mental Health Awareness Month in May, we are sharing books to educate and raise awareness about mental health and the various factors that may affect it, and to provide tools and resources for student wellness. Find our full collection of titles here.
