"We Would Never" is inspired by a real 2014 murder, exploring how a family spirals into violence over custody. ...
"I wanted to tell the story of Yemeni Jewish women because I grew up with these really powerful strong women." ...
"In this day and age, what we expect when we read about a girl on the cusp of adolescence, journeying on her own, is that she’s going to be subject to predation—but this was not the story that was growing through me." ...
"When a family member becomes unrecognizable, says Lloyd, "that’s a tragedy, and any effort to make complete sense of it is bound to fail." ...
In Kantika, Rebecca—who is both a dressmaker and a beauty—is interested in manipulating surfaces and self-fashioning. ...
I knew that not all Jewish guys my age could be callow, shallow and immature, but eventually it dawned on me that I had bigger obstacles than my Jews-only mindset. ...

I met my husband 33 years ago at a party for a physicist I didn’t know. My neighbor invited me

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