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Bagels
and Grits
A Jew on the Bayou
Jennifer Anne Moses
Outstanding Book, selected by the American Association of School Librarians
Best Books for Regional Special Interests, selected by the Public Library Association
“This smart, funny, wise book is every kind of song—part cheering Broadway melody, part devout religious chant, part rousing gospel sing-along—and Jennifer Moses gets to sing all the parts, in her wisecracking, inviting, distinctive voice. Aren’t we all looking for that sign from God? With open eyes and an open heart, we will see them everywhere, just as she did.”
—The Times-Picayune
Jennifer Anne Moses left behind a comfortable life in the upper echelons of East Coast Jewish society to move with her husband and children to Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Searching for connection to her surroundings, she decided to volunteer at an AIDS hospice. But as she encountered a culture populated by French Catholics and Evangelical Christians, African Americans and Cajuns, altruistic nurses and nuns, ex-cons, street-walkers, impoverished AIDS patients, and healers of all stripes, she found she had embarked on an unexpected journey of profound self-discovery and a deep commitment to her faith—a Judaism that asks not for blind belief, but rather daily commitment.
"A powerful, witty, honest, and probing
spiritual autobiography of the first order. . . . Moses grows
and grows in this book as she opens more and more to the love
and faith and pain around her."—Rodger Kamenetz, author
of The Jew in the Lotus and The History of Last Night's
Dream
 Jennifer Anne Moses is a writer now living in Montclair, New Jersey. Her essays, reporting, reviews, and travel and opinion pieces have appeared frequently in the New York Times, Washington Post, Atlanta Journal Constitution,and Salon. She is the author of Visiting Hours, Food and Whine, Just Give Me One Piece of Gum, and Songs You Can Sing to Your Dog.
Jennifer Moses has a web site, with more
information about this book: jenniferannemoses.com
There is a press kit for this title. For more information regarding publicity
and reviews contact our publicity manager, phone: (608) 263-0734,
email: publicity@uwpress.wisc.edu
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FIRST PAPERBACK EDITION
October 2013
LC: 2007011823 F
176 pp. 6 x 9
A trade imprint of the University of Wisconsin Press
"An enchanting, enthralling, and enlightening
memoir–part Nora Ephron, part Harold Kushner, and–happily–uniquely
Jennifer Anne Moses! An exciting, tender, and most affecting
voyage of discovery."
—Jay Neugeboren, author of Imagining
Robert, The Stolen Jew, and News from the New American
Diaspora
"Bagels and Grits is one
of the most moving spiritual memoirs I've ever read. From beginning
to end it held me enthralled."
—James
Wilcox, director of creative writing, Louisiana State University
and author of Heavenly Days and Hunk City more |
