Writing Shiva - Paperback

by Toni Ortner (Author)

Writing Shiva is a fast-moving, drily humorous memoir about growing up as a Jewish girl during World War II in Woodmere, Long Island where the struggle to assimilate contrasts with the deep family ties and cultural roots that even illness and death cannot sever.

Author Biography

Toni Ortner has had 18 books published by fine small presses. The most recent books are Traveling, A Perspective by Kelsay Books and A White Page Demands Its Letters by Mayapple Press. Fractured Woman and End Rhymes for End Times will be published by Word Tech Communications in 2018 as well as Giving Myself Over to J.S. Bach by Kelsay Books. Recent work and reviews of her books are on vermontviews.org at Old Lady Blog. Toni is host of the Write Action Radio Hour the fourth Sunday of each month on WVEW, where she interviews writers and they read their work. Toni lives in Putney, Vermont. Her website is toniortner.com.