Shivah: A Novel from Memory

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Constructed in seven parts to mimic the seven days of shivah, the Jewish period of mourning wherein the mourners enter the home of the bereaved and sit and pray with them, Shivah is an exploration of difficult family relationships, of mental health, and of negotiating selfhood in the face of adversity.

“Solod gives her readers a command performance—one that leaves the reader filled with empathy and sympathy both.” —Linda Gray Sexton author of Searching for Mercy Street: My Journey Back to My Mother, Anne Sexton and Half in Love: Surviving the Legacy of Suicide

“‘But grief has its own timeline,’ just like these words, Shivah honors and reveals Lisa Solod’s ability to cut into the soul of grief. I felt privileged to be let into the multilayered relationship between a daughter and her mother.” —Carly Israel, author of Seconds and Inches

“Shivah is a beautiful, moving meditation on the multiple, complex, and often conflicting layers of grief. Through her narrator’s spiraling introspection, Solod asks what it means to lose someone long before you’ve lost them, to grieve what might have been as well as what was.” —Ilana Masad, author of All My Mother’s Lovers

“The ritual of shivah offers comfort and connection, a way to let mourners know they are not alone in their grief. Lisa Solod’s thoughtful, moving novel named for this ritual does the same. Anyone who’s dealt with an alcoholic mother, or an emotionally abusive mother, or a mother with dementia or similarly painful and complicated issues, will find comfort and connection in these pages. I found so many echoes of my own complex mother and our tangled relationship in this novel, myself, and am grateful for the sisterhood and insight Lisa Solod provides.” —Gayle Brandeis, author of The Art of Misdiagnosis

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