Hope Edelman's Writings
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Article
Nov.23.2010
New York Times
THE memo from the middle school came home in my daughter’s backpack on a Friday afternoon. “Next week your sixth-grade child will participate in a flour-sack baby exercise,” it said. All sixth graders were to report to school Monday with five-pound bags of flour dressed up as dolls, and carry them everywhere for the week. The idea was to teach them the...
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Short Story
Jun.30.2009
Behind the Bedroom Door (Anthology, 2008)
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Short Story
Jun.18.2009
Iowa Review (awarded with the 1997 Pushcart Prize)
The first time I heard a Bruce Springsteen song performed live was in 1979, when I was in the tenth grade and Larry Weinberger and A.J. DeStefano stood in our high school parking lot shouting all the words to "Thunder Road" from start to finish, zipping right through that tune at fast-forward speed. Eyes squeezed shut into brief black hyphens, shoulders...
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Article
Jun.18.2009
Self Magazine
The Santa Ana winds blew all night, gusts so strong they lifted a six-foot glass table over our deck railing and catapulted it onto our side lawn, where it shattered into 10,000 pieces on the grass. In western Malibu, power lines touched down and sparked blazes that sprinted across the hills. It’s hard to believe just how fierce a dry, hot wind can be. Windows...
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Short Story
Jun.18.2009
New York Times Sunday Magazine
It rained the day of my grandmother’s funeral, a fine drizzle that clung to our dark coats like a silver veil. She died this past December, a few weeks short of her 90th birthday. We buried her in the family plot just behind my mother, who died at 42. The official documents listed my grandmother’s cause of death as acute respiratory and coronary failure, backed...
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About Hope
Hope Edelman is the author of five nonfiction books, including the bestsellers Motherless Daughters (1994) and Motherless Mothers (2006) and the new memoir, The Possibility of Everything (September 2009). Her articles and reviews have appeared in such...
Connections
Causes Hope Edelman Supports
Motherless Daughters of Orange County
Mommy's Light
Belize Children's Food Fund
Doctors Without Borders
Hope’s Favorite Books
Slouching Toward Bethlehem
The Tortilla Curtain
The Time Traveler’s Wife
A Thousand Splendid Suns
The Red Tent
Portrait of Jennie
The Mists of Avalon