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MEMOIR / JUDAICA / SOCIAL ISSUES
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Outstanding Book, selected by the American Association
of School Librarians
•
Best Books for Regional Special Interests, selected by the
Public Library Association
When Jennifer Anne Moses moved from a comfortable life in East Coast Jewish
society to Baton Rouge, Louisiana, she volunteered at an AIDS hospice and redis-
covered a profound commitment to her Jewish faith.
“Beautifully weaving both her personal crises and her family history into a larger
discussion of the challenges facing contemporary Judaism, Moses . . . creates a
moving portrait of a thoroughly modern woman struggling to make sense of, and
to live up to, the faith of her forebears.”—Lorraine Glennon,
Ladies Home Journal
Jennifer Anne Moses
is a writer now living in Montclair, New Jersey. Her essays,
reporting, reviews, and travel and opinion pieces have appeared frequently in the
New York Times
,
Washington Post
,
Atlanta Journal Constitution
, and
Salon
. She is
the author of
Visiting Hours
,
Food and Whine
,
Just Give Me One Piece of Gum
, and
Songs You Can Sing to Your Dog
.
AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL FICTION / DISABILITY
“King fashions a rich, compelling, and often wry narrative. . . .
He captures ‘the labor of being sick in America.’”
—Eric J. Iannelli,
Times Literary Supplement
When an Englishman receives an invitation from an American university, he
embraces it as a jubilant new beginning. Instead, on arrival, he is stricken with a
persistent inability to stand up or think straight. Diagnosed with ME disease—also
called chronic fatigue syndrome—he moves restlessly across his newly adopted
country, searching for a love and a life suited to his new condition.
Love and
Fatigue in America
briskly compresses an illness, a nation, and an era in a masterly
blend of literary forms.
“This moving autobiographical novel . . . brings into relief many of America’s fol-
lies and excesses, most notably our health-care system. . . . After more than fifteen
years, America brings the narrator ‘not aspiration realized, nor a largeness of life
fitting to its open spaces, but the nascent ability to be satisfied with less.’ ”
—
The New Yorker
Roger King
is the author of four previous novels:
Horizontal Hotel
,
Written on a
Stranger’s Map
,
Sea Level
, and
A Girl from Zanzibar
. Since 1991 he has suffered
from ME disease. A native of London, he lives in Leverett, Massachusetts.
FIRST PAPERBACK EDITION
OCTOBER
LC: 2007011823 F
178 PP. 6 × 9
E-BOOK $9.99 T ISBN 978-0-299-22443-1
A trade imprint of the University
of Wisconsin Press
• 2007 CLOTH, UWP, ISBN 978-0-299-22440-0
FIRST PAPERBACK EDITION
FEBRUARY
LC: 2011042648 PR
254 PP. 5 ½ × 8 ¼
E-BOOK $14.95 T ISBN 978-0-299-28723-8
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• 2012 CLOTH, UWP, ISBN 978-0-299-28720-7
