Rachel Simon: 20 books

Rachel Simon spent years analyzing why her daughter’s eczema flared up and what made it calm down. A maverick with a curious mind, and a yen for self-experimentation, she started by asking a simple question most experts haven't tackled: Where is 80 percent of your immune system located? After scouring...

A “heartwarming, life-affirming” memoir of a relationship with an intellectually disabled sibling: “Read this book. It might just change your life” (Boston Herald).   Beth is a spirited woman with an intellectual disability who lives intensely and often joyfully, and spends most of her days...

This wild, magic-realist ride of a novel, originally published in 1994, is funny, sexy, satirical, linguistically exuberant, and utterly unique. Written as a fictional biography, it tells the life story of a woman with magical sexual powers that she uses to heal people. The story follows our heroine...

Rachel Simon’s debut, originally published in 1990, is a collection of stories about the struggle for love and intimacy, told from the point of view of adolescent girls, young mothers, and elderly women. Some are rooted in reality, others in magical realism, with tones ranging from serious to comic,...

The bestselling author of Riding the Bus with My Sister shares an illuminating and beautifully woven memoir about the unexpected ways a home renovation can repair a heart. When Rachel Simon and her architect husband begin to renovate their house on Teacher's Lane, she braces herself for the...

In the first major study of women in an Arab country�s Jewish community, Rachel Simon examines the changing status of Jewish women in Libya from the second half of the nineteenth century until 1967, when most Jews left the country. Simon shows how social, economic, and political changes in Libyan...

"The most compelling, resonating novel I've read in years... A breathtakingly beautiful, yet heart-wrenchingly aching story that, despite its cruelty and humanity, uplifts the reader." - Omaha World-Herald NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER It is 1968. Lynnie, a young white woman with...

The first edition received widespread praise, including from eminent scholars such as Gita Sen and Amina Mama (see quotes below) The only book on the subject to cover the Global South as a whole and to bring together such a wide variety of disciplines and approaches. Offers a critical feminist perspective on development. Bridges the gap between development scholarship and feminist activism. 

This inspirational guide for aspiring and experienced writers was originally published in 1997. Written in a friendly, hopeful, and gently humorous tone, it focuses on the creative process and emotional ups and downs of the creative life, providing insights into how to persist in the face of rejection,...

Amerika im Jahr 1968: Die Witwe Martha lebt in ihrem abgelegenen Haus ein einsames Leben. Nur an Weihnachten erhält sie von ehemaligen Schülern Besuch. Dann jedoch stehen zwei wildfremde, verzweifelte Menschen vor ihrer Tür: das Mädchen Lynnie und Homan, ein tauber Afroamerikaner. Beide sind aus...

The March/April 2016 issue of Uncanny Magazine. Featuring new fiction by Rachel Swirsky, Shveta Thakrar, Max Gladstone, Kelly Sandoval, and Simon Guerrier, classic fiction by Daryl Gregory, essays by Jim C. Hines, Kyell Gold, Javier Grillo-Marxuach, and Mark Oshiro, poetry by C.S.E. Cooney,...

Four Australian thinkers come together to ask and answer the big questions, such as: What is the nature of the universe? Doesn't religion cause most of the conflict in the world? and Where do we find hope? We are introduced to the detail of different belief systems - Judaism, Christianity,...

Literary history generally locates the primary movement toward poetic innovation in twentieth-century modernism, an impulse carried out against a supposedly enervated “late-Romantic” poetry of the nineteenth century. The original essays in Active Romanticism challenge this interpretation by tracing...

The Great British Entrepreneur's Handbook shares the secrets of experienced entrepreneurs on everything from coming up with great business ideas to the value of old-fashioned networking and how to raise funds - whether courting VCs and other investors or seeking out new sources of crowd finance. With...