Selected WorksFiction
Ménage
Alix's new novel, forthcoming in May 2012 from Other Press Memoirs of an Ex-Prom Queen
"A devastating expose of the all-American girl plight." Boston Globe Burning Questions
"A perfectly realized novel about feminism." Rita Mae Brown On the Stroll
"Insightful and compassionate." Publishers Weekly In Every Woman's Life
"Fierce, funny, touching." NY Times Book Review Non-Fiction
A Marriage Agreement and Other Essays
First ever collection of Alix's most controversial essays, from the 1970s till now, forthcoming in spring 2012. Red Emma Speaks: an Emma Goldman Reader
Emma Goldman's writings and speeches compiled and edited by Alix Kates Shulman To the Barricades: The Anarchist Life of Emma Goldman
Biography of Emma Goldman, named A New York Times Notable Book "A Marriage Disagreement"
Revisits controversial proposal to share childcare and housework Memoirs
To Love What Is
"A haunting meditation on a love more enduring than the body or mind." Boston Globe A Good Enough Daughter
"Refreshingly upbeat, infused with insight, affection, and respect." NY Times Book Review Drinking the Rain
"A ten year voyage of discovery [that] could even, if we were willing, change our lives." San Francisco Chronicle For Children
Bosley on the Number Line
Fantasy adventure story with a mathematical plot Awake or Asleep
Picture book exploring the borderline between dream and reality Finders Keepers
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A Good Enough DaughterPublished by Schocken Books in 1999, this memoir, says The Boston Globe, is "an unusually painstaking look at what you get from your family--what they give, what you take, what comes to you by luck, what by choice, what you have to reject, and what you can reclaim if you are lucky."
Decades after fleeing the loving middle-class home of her youth, when her aging parents grow frail and need her, Alix returns to care for them. As she dismantles their house of forty years, revisiting her childhood and uncovering family secrets, she finally learns how to be a good enough daughter. Far from the burden she expected, her new devotion turns out to be an exhilarating blessing, even as she sees her parents, at age 89 and 95, out of this world. "Shulman takes on the most daunting of challenges a contemporary memoirist can face--a happy childhood and a loving set of parents--and brings it off triumphantly in this uniquely wise, perceptive, bittersweet, and emotionally satisfying book." Phillip Lopate "Profound, loving, and universal." Pittsburgh Post-Gazette "Fascinating. . . Shulman's reflective memoir proves well worth pondering as we confront the role reversals we ourselves will face--if we don't already." Newsday "Refreshingly upbeat, infused with insight, affection, and respect." NY Times Book Review |
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