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He knocked me down with a right hook to the jaw and then dragged me back the mile or so to the house with a hard, set look on his face. Into this life of counted blessings comes a surprise. Goldbloom was born in Perth, Western Australia.
Illinois Authors
ISBN: 0374175314 OCLC: 1080553849 Through one woman's life at a moment of surprising change, the award-winning author Goldie Goldbloom tells a deeply affecting, morally insightful story and offers a rare look inside Brooklyn's Chasidic community.
Her in-laws, postwar immigrants from Romania, live on the first floor of their house. ‘Aaah. I was pressing tea towels, the steam that rose from the iron tasting of burnt linen. Ssssh. She is a member of the Lubavitch chassidic community. I could feel the broken pieces of ant nest that formed our floor gouging tracks into my skin.
Terrified, I ran through the wheat field to get Toad’s help. In 2011, Goldbloom was the Chicago Reader’s Jewish Writer of the Year. Surie is pregnant. Boss Cockie, perched on the window ledge, was imitating the sound of the sad iron.
And so for the first time in her life, she has a secret--a secret that slowly separates her from the community. It is a steady-eyed look inside insular communities that also celebrates their comforts. I’m proud of that.
(Used with permission from Picador.)
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It is a shock. Her ten children range in age from thirteen to thirty-nine.And it is an unforgettable new novel from a writer whose imagination is matched only by the depth of her humanity.
Excerpt from The Paperback Shoe
Toad was out checking the fence line when I felt the birth pains from my first child, my Joan. Goldie also received a Great Lakes College Association New Writers Award in 2010.
Membership
She is a former board member of Eshel and is the creator of the international blog, Frum Gay Girl, where she interviews Orthodox LGBT Jews and their allies.
I woke up, jolting along on his back, and the screams I heard were my own.
‘Shut up, Gin,’ he said, ‘or I’ll have to hit you again.’
He’d seen that look in my eyes, he said, of an animal wild with pain, which either needs to be left alone to die or shot in the head. Goldie Goldbloom's On Division is an excavation of one woman's life, a story of awakening at middle age, and a thoughtful examination of the dynamics of self and collective identity.
She and Yidel, a scribe in such demand that he makes only a few Torah scrolls a year, live on the third. The novel also won Literary Novel of the Year from the ForeWord Magazine (Independent Publishers) in 2011.