*WINNER of the 2011 Flannery O’Connor Award for Fiction
…a brilliant debut… Sad, funny, and always wise, Levy’s stories reveal truths about how we love and lose, trust and betray, with an intelligence that takes my breath away.”
—Cheryl Strayed, bestselling author of Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
“One of the best new nonfiction writers in the country.”
—Bill Roorbach, author of Temple Stream: A Rural Odyssey
Tasting Life Twice: Literary Lesbian Fiction by New American Writers
*WINNER of the Lambda Literary Award
“…beautiful, sad, sweet, moving, and defiant. At twice the price, this book still would be well worth purchasing. Highly recommended.”
–Library Journal
Best American Essays 2005; edited by Susan Orlean
“…a remarkable first-person account of a life….E.J. Levy remembers [her] mother by way of the romantic Julia Child meals she prepared while [she] was growing up.”
–Publishers Weekly, August 15, 2005