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Nobody will tell you this but me : a true (as told to me) story / Bess Kalb.
"A funny, warm, original memoir in which a grandmother speaks to her granddaughter from beyond the grave, telling, with candor and humor, stories from both their lives-- of kinship, loyalty, tenacity, and love"-- Provided by publisher.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780525654711 (hardcover)
- Physical Description: xiv, 206 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, [2020]
- Copyright: ©2020
Content descriptions
| General Note: | "This is a Borzoi book"-- Title page verso. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | My mother -- Your mother -- Our life together -- After me. |
Search for related items by subject
| Subject: | Kalb, Bess, 1987- Grandmothers > Anecdotes. Grandparent and child > Anecdotes. |
| Genre: | Autobiographies. |
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Lakeshore Branch | 306.8745 Kalb | 31681010191070 | NONFIC | Available | - |
- Baker & Taylor
"A funny, warm, original memoir in which a grandmother speaks to her granddaughter from beyond the grave, telling, with candor and humor, stories from both their lives--of kinship, loyalty, tenacity, and love"-- - Baker & Taylor
The award-winning Jimmy Kimmel Live writer reflects on her relationship with her loving grandmother, the daughter of immigrants from 19th-century Belarus whose hardships, sacrifices and headstrong nature shaped the authorâs perspectives on family and career. Illustrations. - Random House, Inc.
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ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR:
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“I have not been as profoundly moved by a book in years.” —Jodi Picoult
Even after she left home for Hollywood, Emmy-nominated TV writer Bess Kalb saved every voicemail her grandmother Bobby Bell ever left her. Bobby was a force—irrepressible, glamorous, unapologetically opinionated. Bobby doted on Bess; Bess adored Bobby. Then, at ninety, Bobby died. But in this debut memoir, Bobby is speaking to Bess once more, in a voice as passionate as it ever was in life.
Recounting both family lore and family secrets, Bobby brings us four generations of indomitable women and the men who loved them. There’s Bobby’s mother, who traveled solo from Belarus to America in the 1880s to escape the pogroms, and Bess’s mother, a 1970s rebel who always fought against convention. But it was Bobby and Bess who always had the most powerful bond: Bobby her granddaughter’s fiercest supporter, giving Bess unequivocal love, even if sometimes of the toughest kind. Nobody Will Tell You This But Me marks the creation of a totally new, virtuosic form of memoir: a reconstruction of a beloved grandmother’s words and wisdom to tell her family’s story with equal parts poignancy and hilarity.
