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Praise for House on the River

“We see an imaginary hand reach out from Rapoport’s talent to try to grab a feeling that shimmers, just beyond reach as we get older. The river, long afternoons, the dock, a book. Summer.”

—SUSAN SALTER REYNOLDS,

Los Angeles Times Book Review

“Nessa Rapoport writes like a poet, muses like a philosopher, and loves like the mother (and daughter and granddaughter) that she is. House on the River is about family but also much more. It is a startlingly original work, as intricate as a jewel and as vast as a library full of your favorite books.”

—STEPHEN J. DUBNER, author of Turbulent Souls and

Confessions of a Hero-Worshiper

“I have never read such a luminous meditation on a private journey. Nessa Rapoport writes about her family in spare, vibrant, poetic prose. I am moved by the layers of meaning as they weave in and out like fine music. This is memoir as prayer.”

—ELIZABETH SWADOS, composer and playwright of

Runaways and Alice in Concert

“Nessa Rapoport’s beautiful book is about everything important: the enchantment of childhood, the passion of adolescence, the longing to return to a world one dreamed of escaping, the way the physical realm passes into the imaginary realm, and the way our dreams become incarnate in the new families we make. I can’t imagine a lovelier figure for all this than a houseboat loaded with children, parents, siblings, dreams of the past, and hope for the future.”

—JONATHAN ROSEN, author of

Eve’s Apple and The Talmud and the Internet

Praise for A Woman’s Book of Grieving

“A work of redemptive passion, this is highly recommended for all libraries.”

—ELISE CHASE, Library Journal

“Rapoport’s lyrical reflections, poetry, lamentations, and thoughtful reminiscences are highly charged, each word so perfectly chosen, each emotion so powerfully drawn.”

—Booklist

“[A] finely articulated message of renewal and healing.”

—Publishers Weekly

Praise for Preparing for Sabbath

BOOKS IN CANADA FIRST NOVEL AWARD SHORT-LIST

“The story of a young woman’s quest to find both love and God . . . A novel by a talented new writer.”

—Los Angeles Times

“Intense, emotional, often poetic, the book catches and holds the reader.”

—Milwaukee Journal

“The story of a young Jew’s search for spiritual meaning has been written before, but not from a woman’s point of view. An incisive, lyrical novel.”

—Flare

“A warm, wise novel suffused with the blue radiance of yearning.”

—AMOS OZ, author of A Tale of Love and Darkness