Jennifer
Anne Moses

Jennifer Anne Moses is a master of the short story genre.

This collection may position Moses as this generation’s Grace Paley. A showcase of the author’s humor, wit, and emotional depth.

Not only does author Jennifer Anne Moses reach for perfection in the stories’ length, but each is a well-written gem, peopled with strong, strange-verging-on-weird characters, whose predicaments inexplicably mattered very much to me. Well, maybe not so inexplicable, for, as I mentioned, Moses, can write.

She may be the one—the new Erma Bombeck that publishers are searching for—with this book that is sometimes laugh-out-loud funny, ironic, frank, fearful, neurotic, warm, and engaging.

Moses has a vivid sense of humor and never takes herself too seriously. After finishing this book, readers may wish they could sit down over a bagel and grits and visit with her.

The lyrical prose style is reminiscent of Delia Owens’s ‘Where the Crawdads Sing’ but the suspension of disbelief and ability to connect to the wacky characters is what readers will find most engaging about the story.

Moses has the great writer's gift: she deftly peels back the skin of ordinary lives — the follies, the griefs, the passing ecstasies — to reveal the tremors of yearning beneath.

Jennifer Anne Moses is our century's Bernard Malamud or Saul Bellow. With warmth, tenderness, and wit, she captures the essence of the modern Jewish experience in the family, the workplace, and the bedroom.

I haven't laughed so hard or as guiltily at my people's misfortunes, missteps, and misadventures since the first time I read Cynthia Ozick. The things Moses writes about are either 100% true or true enough.