Applauded for her purity of style, Merrill Joan Gerber-- in THE VICTORY GARDENS OF BROOKLYN-- plumbs the sorrows and triumphs of three generations of sisters from an American Jewish family. Rachel and
"It's truly powerful, and acrid, and barbed, and filled with wonderful, and unexpected, turns of phrase and above all it's shocking in its directness and understated anger and sadness and fear? it's a
When writer Merrill Joan Gerber is invited to join her husband, a history professor, as he takes a class of American college students to study in Florence, Italy, she feels terrified at the idea of le
When Merrill Joan Gerber was diagnosed breast cancer, she set out on a journey familiar to too many women. It began with denial that her precious breasts, those shining birthrights that appear in adol
Glimmering Girls: A Novel of the Fifties is set in a Florida university during those repressive years when women were near-prisoners in college dorms, when their virtue was constantly guarded, and in
Based on actual events, this shattering novel about wife and child abuse is a work of art that haunts the reader's memory. Merrill Joan Gerber reveals the love affair of Ginny and her sensitive but ho
