Books by Joy Ladin and Complete Book Reviews

Joy Ladin. Univ. of Wisconsin, $26.95 (270p) ISBN 978-0-299-28730-6
In this eloquent, bittersweet memoir, professor and poet Ladin (Psalms) leavens with literary artistry the often incredibly painful story of her gender transition from male to female. She describes her wife forced “to witness the slow erasure of the
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Joy Ladin. Brandeis Univ., $29.95 (200p) ISBN 978-1-5126-0293-7
English professor Ladin uses her own experience as a transgender Jew to deliver keen readings of the Torah in this outstanding theological work. She opens with a transgender reading of the Genesis creation story that pushes against notions of...
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Joy Ladin. Persea, $17 trade paper (80p) ISBN 978-0-89255-589-5
Reflecting on loss with a poet’s eye for detail and wonder, the core of this piercing outing from Ladin (The Future Is Trying to Tell Us Something) chronicles the loss of her mother to dementia. In moving poems that explore their shifting...
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