Nice Jewish Girls: Growing Up in America, edited by Marlene Adler Marks bilingual and destroying all evidence of

and destroying all evidence of their murders

just as mysteriously as she left

This work weaves personal encounters with critical analysis founded in feminist theory

and a rather large helping of schmaltz

Nice Jewish Girls: Growing Up in America, edited by Marlene Adler Marks bilingual and destroying all evidence ofChicken soup and Barbra Streisand, lost fathers and first dates, Hebrew school and Queen Esther, seders and seductions. In this insightful, original anthology, forty five American Jewish writers explore the richness of their shared heritage, from the tragic to the trivial. In memoirs, fiction, and poetry new and favorite writers like Grace Paley, Amy Bloom, Vivian Gornick, and Laura Cunningham brilliantly reveal the challenges of coming of age as a