Alice Mattison

In Case We're Separated: Connected Stories (2006)

How the heck did this book get a 4 rating, not to mention "A Notable Book of the Year, The New York Times Book Review", it was awful and boring! When I read the back of the book in the store, I thought yeah, this sounds great, but it was far from it. It's about a family of Jewish immigrants that ...

Hilda and Pearl: A Novel (2001)

The Book Borrower (2000)

The Wedding of the Two-Headed Woman: A Novel (2005)

You know, this is exactly the kind of book I would normally hate: selfish middle-aged intellectual cheats on a good and loving, if flawed, spouse, and doesn't feel bad about it, makes philosophical observations while doing so. And yet, because this middle-aged intellectual was a woman, the conve...