<p>Product Description      How does somebody get to be a nobody? Influenced by the Women's Movement, in this memoir mixed with fiction the writer Ann Z. Leventhal reveals from her own and other people's points of view how an ordinary New York Jew married a lawyer, gave birth four times, overcame a diagnosis of epilepsy and depression, forged a bond with a cousin who once disliked her, enjoyed a love affair with a feminist scholar, benefitted from psychotherapy, freaked out her children, coped with sexism, attracted a genius, came to terms with her parents, survived her oldest son's suicide, communicated with her late husband, acquired a second spouse, outlasted his daughter's hostility, recovered from breast cancer, turned to teaching, bested a scammer, and triumphantly stuck around long enough to expose and celebrate her own invisibility.      About the Author      Ann Z. Leventhal has published two novels, Life-lines (Magic Circle Press) and Among the Survivors (She Writes Press), short stories (South Dakota Review, Vignettes, Christopher Street), poems (Prairie Schooner, The Georgia Review, Passages North, Puerta del Sol), articles and reviews (Publishers Weekly, Maenad, The New York Times Book Review). She's written a play, advertising copy, a political candidate's speeches and press releases, indeed everything but a movie script. Leventhal lives with her husband and their pooch, Brenda, in Bradenton, Florida and New York City.</p>

The Makings of a Nobody

Biographies & Memoirs

Leventhal, Ann Z.

Memoirs

Magic Circle Press

Life-lines

Though twenty-one-year-old Karla Most manages to bag Saxton Perry, a virtual prince thirty years her senior, she has no idea how to live happily ever after, with or without him. Karla cannot get past her anger at having been deceived by her single, now-dead mother, Mutti, who―supposedly a “Holocaust victim,” complete with tattooed numbers―was in fact a German Christian who got into the United States by falsifying her background. So what does that make her daughter? Before she can answer that question, Karla must track down the actual story of her own existence.

Among the Survivors: A Novel

Literature & Fiction

United States

She Writes Press

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