Visiting Her in Queens Is More Enlightening than a Month in a Monastery in Tibet
Winner of The Rattle Chapbook Prize, 2022
A kind of family photo album for the final years of a life. As dementia progresses in Michael’s mother, each poem is at once a snapshot, a foreshadowing and a memory. And like memories, each is revealing, accurate, and blurry.
Toba At the Hands of a Thief
Atheneum, 1985
Nominated for the National Jewish Book Award
Named Notable Book of the Year by the National Council for the Social Studies & Children’s Book Council
Toba
Atheneum, 1984
“Ingenuous, poignant, funny - Toba, the author’s first book for children, is an auspicious beginning.”
- Boston Sunday Globe
“… Appealing and sensitively written.”
- New York Times Book Review