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REVIEW: ‘You’ve Told Me Before’

JL;DR SUMMARY Jennifer Anne Moses' new collection, "Youve Told Me Before: Stories," delves into the intricate worlds of antisemitism, family dynamics, and identity within Jewish middle- and upper-middle-class life. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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IdentityFamily DynamicsShort StoriesMother Daughter RelationshipsCultural CritiqueLiterary AnalysisHumorSuburban Jewish LifeJennifer Anne Moses

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New York City, New York, United States
"But while that Pulitzer Prize-winning master of the short story drew on New York Citys Greenwich Village, the Vietnam War and the mid-20th centurys social justice struggles, Moses mines the more familiar terrain of Jewish middle- and upper-middle-class suburbia and American affluence."
Adirondacks, New York, United States
"In The Dicknot the title characters actual nameJune, a middle-aged professor of Jewish literature, buys a summer house in the Adirondacks with her husband, hoping for a quiet retreat for themselves and their adult kids."

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