A scintillating collection, full of subtle wit and passionate yearning.
Her creative nonfiction has appeared in a variety of journals, including Under the Sun, Hobart,.
This book is a thoughtful, moving, and candidly funny affirmation of life.-Kimberly Elkins, author of What Is Visible About the Author Lori Horvitz\' first collection of memoir-essays, The Girls of Usually (Truman State UP), won the 2016 Gold Medal IPPY Book Award in Autobiography/Memoir.
Haunted by Grief and ghosts and questions of identity, Horvitz never stops seeking love, in all its forms. -Gary Eldon Peter, author of Oranges and The Complicated Calculus (and Cows) of Carl Paulsen ... -Sharon Harrigan, author of Half and Playing with Dynamite Lori Horvitz\'s vibrant second collection of essays, equal parts heart, humor, and heartbreak, is impossible to put down. -Joan Larkin, author of My Body: New and Selected Poems ...
If you\'ve ever felt like a misfit, you will see yourself in these funny, sad, and ultimately hopeful essays.
In the end, Collect Call to My Mother is a book about becoming whole. -Joelle Fraser, author of The Territory of Men and The Forest House The quest for Love is a risky matter, and Lori Horvitz delivers it in pithy Essays that have the daring vulnerability of an improv act and the bite of a Jewish joke....
Ultimately, hers is an affecting story of resilience. -Manhattan Book Review ...
Lori Horvitz\' writing is a cross between David Sedaris and Anne Lamott.... -Publisher\'s Weekly Powerfully insightful, deeply emotional, and above all else, brutally honest...
Lyrical, frank, and meditative, this consideration of Grief and identity resonates.
Editorial Reviews ...
Horvitz\'s lucid prose offers a nuanced depiction of her rocky path to self-acceptance.
In these Essays exploring themes of love, family, and grief, Horvitz gradually embraces who she is and finds a healthy, long-term relationship.
Each of her turbulent trysts helps unearth the roots of her poor judgment: a chaotic upbringing, compounded by her mother\'s emotional distance and early death.
When she teaches a class of queer college students who look to her as a role model, what they don\'t know is that she spent her twenties and thirties in the closet and leapt from one relationship disaster to the next. -Kirkus Reviews (starred review) Collect Call to My Mother follows Lori Horvitz\' experiences as a queer Jewish New Yorker living in the South, looking for Love in the internet age.
A scintillating collection, full of subtle wit and passionate yearning
