Revelation at the Food Bank -- Merrill Joan Gerber, Paperback

These powerful essays share critical moments of a writer's life: scenes from sixty years of passionate married love; suicides faced and suicide contemplated; trauma at the DMV; a night lost searching for a harpsichord in the mountains of Florence, Italy; the tale of a beloved cousin whose plane is shot down by Japanese Zeros; and a precious friendship between two women writers derailed by the poisons of religion and politics. In the titular essay (included in Best American Essays 2023) a food bank, assuaging the pandemic's terrors with gifts of food and prayers, becomes a portal for intimate confidences entrusted to us by a voice of unspoiled authenticity and perennial vigor.

Author: Merrill Joan Gerber
Publisher: Sagging Meniscus Press
Published: 12/04/2023
Pages: 206
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.61lbs
Size: 8.27h x 5.83w x 0.47d
ISBN: 9781952386701

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 10/30/2023