One book mentioned in her entry:Laura Furman, The Mother Who StayedJulie Metz is the recipient of a MacDowell Fellowship; her work has appeared in publications including the New York Times, Publishers Weekly, Glamour, Hemispheres, and the New York City storysite Mr. Beller's Neighborhood. She lives with her family in Brooklyn, New York.
An editor sent me this collection of stories in galley form. This book has really stayed with me. The stories probe the relationship between mother and child, in the loosest sense of the word. With wonderfully rendered scenes of American landscape, the stories form a kind of national portrait so much greater than the domestic dramas of the plots....[read on]
Among the praise for Perfection:
"Heart-wrenching but triumphant."Read an excerpt from Perfection, and learn more about the book and author at Julie Metz's website.
--Glamour
"A lyrical, haunting, and utterly gripping memoir."
--Redbook
"A dark, evocative memoir from a woman forced to come to terms with her husband's death and the revelation of his infidelity."
--Shelf Awareness
"A fascinating memoir."
--People
"A delectable summer read."
--USA Today
"She brings refreshing candor to a startling, painful tale."
--New York Times
"Metz's Perfection chronicles with lapidary precision one woman's climb back to happiness after not just a spouse's death, but also the shocking recognition that her life before that death was not what she had thought it was. The journey is a painful one, but Ms. Metz is much the stronger for having survived to recount it."
--Julie Powell, author of Julie & Julia
The Page 99 Test: Perfection.
The Page 69 Test: Perfection.
Writers Read: Julie Metz.
--Marshal Zeringue
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