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Ms. Goodman finds the right measure of sugar in this novel-in-stories depicting three generations of Rubinsteins, an East Coast Jewish-American clan tenuously bound by love, ritual and guilt trips.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 5, 2026

The success of that series forced me to confront difficult aspects of my childhood, including the fraught relationship I had tenuously built with my dad.

From Salon ● May 18, 2025

But song and story are only tenuously tethered.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 26, 2023

A few have succeeded, often briefly and tenuously, while many others do not.

From New York Times ● Feb. 7, 2023

I started tenuously down the fixed lines, stiff with dread.

From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer


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