When Jennifer Anne Moses moved from a comfortable life in East Coast Jewish society to Baton Rouge, Louisiana, she volunteered at an AIDS hospice and rediscovered a profound commitment to her Jewish faith. Outstanding Book, selected by the American Association of School Librarians Best Books for Regional Special Interests, selected by the Public Library Association

Bagels and Grits: A Jew on the Bayou

Self-Help

Moses, Jennifer Anne

Personal Transformation

University of Wisconsin Press

Eighteen-year-old Joshua Cushing wakes up in a psych ward, not knowing how he got there. Worse, he has only one eye. And no one in his family will tell him what happened to his girlfriend, Sophie. The one thing he knows for sure is that something happened, leaving him with a self and a life he barely recognizes. Once a popular long-distance runner, Josh is now flabby, frustrated, and furious about returning to his New Jersey high scho ol to repeat his senior year. Forced to attend meetings with other "underage weirdos," he sinks into his loneliness. But when Josh meets Elizabeth Rinaldi, things begin to change. The only other new student in his class, she has a scar on her forehead, a Southern accent, and an attitude. Sharing a status as outcasts and an aptitude for snark, Josh and Elizabeth help each other escape their pasts. The Book of Joshua weaves an unforgettable story from family secrets, friendship, faith, love, and redemption. It brings readers deeply into the lives of those who suffer from mental illness, as well as the friends and family affected by it.

The Book of Joshua

Literature & Fiction

Genre Fiction

Five girls. A paper dress. Tons of shoes. One unforgettable raincoat. White Jeans. Secrets. Drama. Friends? For Justine, Bianca, Becka, Polly, and Anne, living in Westfield, New Jersey is "life on planet toilet paper." At least that's how Justine feels when she shows up as the new girl in school wearing a Scott Paper Caper dress. To her, it's a super-original fashion statement. But other "loser freaks" don't agree. The other girls have their own fashion issues, ranging from fabulous boots to raggedy pajamas to what to wear to therapy. Told in alternating voices, TALES FROM MY CLOSET follows the stories of high school kids who have nothing in common--and everything in common. They're at war with each other, but through their clothes, they reveal and conceal themselves and make peace with what it means to be a teen. Over the course of a school year, their individual struggles and successes come together to tell a story that's funny, honest, and all-girl fabulous.

Tales From My Closet

Teen & Young Adult

Scholastic Press

Jonathan wants a piece of his twin sister's gum. But nothing he says--or does--convinces her to share. Illustrated by the author.

Just Give Me One Piece of Gum

Z Books & Prints, Mary

Children's Books

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

The Art of Dumpster Diving

“The lyrical prose style is reminiscent of Delia Owens’s Where the Crawdads Sing but the suspension of disbelief and ability to connect to the wacky characters is what readers will find most engaging about the story.”―School Library Journal 
"The Art of Dumpster Diving packs a wallop. Glorious storytelling in an authentic voice.”– Adriana Trigiani New York Times bestselling author of Big Stone Gap and Tony's Wife 
“A moving and heart-felt story of family and community, and the symbiotic ways the two can shape and sustain one another.”– Jo Watson Hackl, Author of Smack Dab in the Middle of Maybe, Winner, Southern Book Prize for Children’s Literature 
From award-winning author Jennifer Moses comes an incredible story of the power of family, love and the human-spirit. 
Sixteen-year-old James and his little brother, Danny, live in Crystal Springs, Louisiana, with their grandmother, mother, and first cousin, Lila. The family is working class, proud, strict, and church-going. When a big, clumsy boy named Gabriel moves up the street with his minuscule and mysterious “auntie,” James has a new friend who he loves and hates in equal measure. When Grandma dies and Lila runs away, James and Danny’s mother struggles to make things work, but something’s wrong, so wrong that one awful day, James finds his mother lying in her bed, dead. Panicked, he runs to the only person he can think of, his friend Gabriel. Gabriel insists that if the authorities know that there are no adults at home, they’ll send James and Danny away to foster care or worse, and ends up convincing James that the only way to maintain any kind of decent life for himself and his little brother is to carry on as if things are normal. The boys bury the body under an abandoned house, and, as James tries to make ends meet (procuring food from dumpsters) things become increasingly desperate.   It’s Gabriel who comes up with a “master plan” to find a woman who looks enough like the boys’ mother that she can pass for her---and get money out of the bank. They recruit Lucetta from a soup kitchen, and she moves in. For a while, things begin to look up---and then they fall apart completely. But in the process of losing everything, James and his brother Danny gain a new family, one based on grit, faith and hope.

United States

Turner

Sixteen-year-old James and his little brother, Danny, live in Crystal Springs, Louisiana, with their grandmother, mother, and first cousin, Lila. The family is working class, proud, strict, and church-going. When a big, clumsy boy named Gabriel moves up the street with his minuscule and mysterious “auntie,” James has a new friend who he loves and hates in equal measure. When Grandma dies and Lila runs away, James and Danny’s mother struggles to make things work, but something’s wrong, so wrong that one awful day, James finds his mother lying in her bed, dead. Panicked, he runs to the only person he can think of, his friend Gabriel. Gabriel insists that if the authorities know that there are no adults at home, they’ll send James and Danny away to foster care or worse, and ends up convincing James that the only way to maintain any kind of decent life for himself and his little brother is to carry on as if things are normal. The boys bury the body under an abandoned house, and, as James tries to make ends meet (procuring food from dumpsters) things become increasingly desperate.   It’s Gabriel who comes up with a “master plan” to find a woman who looks enough like the boys’ mother that she can pass for her---and get money out of the bank. They recruit Lucetta from a soup kitchen, and she moves in. For a while, things begin to look up---and then they fall apart completely. But in the process of losing everything, James and his brother Danny gain a new family, one based on grit, faith and hope.

In her first collection of poetry, Jennifer Anne Moses takes on death, aging, nature, sex, abuse, Judaism, and family. She deploys language in its lucid, informal and American vernacular, using it as a vehicle to express the human yearning to be in relationship with the Divine.

Domesticity

Poetry

Blue Jade Press LLC

Product Description 
Fiction. Jewish Studies. Short Stories. Jews being Jewish: that's the subject of Jennifer Anne Moses' new collection of short stories. Whether in Tel Aviv, suburban New Jersey, or the Deep South, the characters who populate the pages of THE MAN WHO LOVED HIS WIFE grapple with God, their loved ones, fate, death, hope, Hitler, transcendence, and the 4000 year old history of Judaism. With a Yiddish sensibility born of passion, an eye for detail, and a deadpan sense of humor reminiscent of Singer, Salinger, and Tillie Olsen, Moses captures singularly Jewish and wholly human characters as they live and breathe through their stories. A secular Israeli loses his son twice, first to ultra-Orthodoxy and then to war. An elderly survivor of Nazism living in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, believes his dog to be the reincarnation of his long-dead sister. Meanwhile, in Queens, an adolescent boy mistakes love for magic and brings his family to the brink of catastrophe. Lovely, tender, and hard to put down, these are short stories that leave you yearning for more. 
"Jennifer Anne Moses is our century's Bernard Malamud or Saul Bellow. With warmth, tenderness, and wit, she captures the essence of the modern Jewish experience in the family, the workplace, and the bedroom. It leaves you hungry for more." --Gabrielle Glaser 
"It started with Sholom Aleichem, and continued with Seinfeld, but few others writing today explore as profoundly the stress of childhood, adolescence, and parenthood on the second and third generations of East European immigrants --the Jewish family in its American incarnation --as Jennifer Anne Moses. Her craft and integrity shine as she digs for the truths that her characters try to hide." --Sol Gittelman 
"A holocaust survivor's not-so-lucky sister returns to him in the shape of a Golden Retriever; a father's rant about his fanatically religious son turns into a bittersweet eulogy; one of a series of tall-tales concocted to impress a girl lands the tale-teller's father in jail; a brother confesses to his unsympathetic sister his fixation with a college crush best remembered for an episode involving a banana; a son struggles to quell the libidinous exploits of his nursing-home-bound mother...At their finest the stories in Jennifer Ann Moses' THE MAN WHO LOVED HIS WIFE have the wit, whimsy, and surreal wonder of Chagall paintings --but a dark, depraved Chagall whose angels are as deeply flawed as they are grittily earthbound." --Peter Selgin 
"The wonderful stories in Jennifer Ann Moses' THE MAN WHO LOVED HIS WIFE play the heartstrings like a harp, striking deep chords of pathos and passion to wild chords of hilarity. Seldom does such essential wisdom come in such an entertaining package." --Steve Stern 
 Review 
Jennifer Anne Moses is our century's Bernard Malamud or Saul Bellow. With warmth, tenderness, and wit, she captures the essence of the modern Jewish experience in the family, the workplace, and the bedroom. It leaves you hungry for more. --Gabrielle Glaser, author of "American Baby: A Mother, a Child, and the Shadow History of Adoption"\nA holocaust survivor's not-so-lucky sister returns to him in the shape of a Golden Retriever; a father's rant about his fanatically religious son turns into a bittersweet eulogy; one of a series of tall-tales concocted to impress a girl lands the tale-teller's father in jail; a brother confesses to his unsympathetic sister his fixation with a college crush best remembered for an episode involving a banana; a son struggles to quell the libidinous exploits of his nursing-home-bound mother At their finest the stories in Jennifer Ann Moses' 
The Man Who Loved His Wife have the wit, whimsy, and surreal wonder of Chagall paintings but a dark, depraved Chagall whose angels are as deeply flawed as they are grittily earthbound. --Peter Selgin, author of "Drowning Lessons" and "The Inventors"\nThe wonderful stories in Jennifer Ann Moses' 
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The Man who Loved His Wife

Short Stories & Anthologies

Mayapple Press

Visiting Hours, a novel-in-stories, explores the lives of people not normally met on the page---AIDS patients and those who care for them. Set in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and written with large and frequent dollops of humor, the book is a profound meditation on faith and love in the face of illness and poverty.

Visiting Hours

Fomite

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Bagels and Grits: A Jew on the Bayou

The Book of Joshua

Tales From My Closet

Just Give Me One Piece of Gum

The Art of Dumpster Diving

The Art of Dumpster Diving

Domesticity

The Man who Loved His Wife

Visiting Hours