Spilt Milk

Name: Spilt Milk
Brand: HighBridge Audio
Availability: InStock
Author: Courtney Zoffness
ISBN: 9781684579051

Author: Courtney Zoffness

Narrator: Courtney Zoffness

Unabridged: 4 hr 41 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Highbridge Audio

Published: 03/02/2021

Categories: Nonfiction, Biography & Autobiography, Memoirs

Synopsis

What role does a mother play in raising thoughtful, generous children? In her literary debut, internationally award-winning writer Courtney Zoffness considers what we inherit from generations past—biologically, culturally, spiritually—and what we pass on to our children. Spilt Milk is an intimate, bracing, and beautiful exploration of vulnerability and culpability. Zoffness relives her childhood anxiety disorder as she witnesses it manifest in her firstborn; endures brazen sexual advances by a student in her class; grapples with the implications of her young son's cop obsession; and challenges her Jewish faith. Where is the line between privacy and secrecy? How do the stories we tell inform who we become? These powerful, dynamic essays herald a vital new voice.

About Courtney Zoffness

Courtney Zoffness won the Sunday Times Short Story Award, an Emerging Writers Fellowship from the Center for Fiction, residency fellowships from the MacDowell Colony, and the Susan Atefat Prize in Creative Nonfiction from Arts & Letters. Her work has appeared in the Paris Review Daily, the Southern Review, Longreads, Los Angeles Review of Books, and elsewhere, and she had Notable Best American Essays in 2018 and 2019. She teaches at Drew University and lives with her family in Brooklyn, New York.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Judy

Essay collections are not my favorite thing to read. I never did connect with this author. I appreciate she wanted to explain her life and views and struggles but felt she was trying too hard somehow.......more

Goodreads review by Zibby

Spilt Milk is really a bunch of memoirs instead of just one, which is innovative because of how the book was divided into sections. This book is about what we inherit from past generations and what we pass on to our children—not just biologically but also culturally, historically, and spiritually. T......more

Goodreads review by Courtney

Ah! Such a smart book about the giant smallness that is a working mother's life. The intimate micro-moments and the biggest questions, all taking place in the same day part. I especially liked that these essays deal with both political and spiritual/religious questions which many essay collections d......more