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1 week ago | 
qoshe.com | Caroline Leavitt
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1 week ago | 
psychologytoday.com | Caroline Leavitt
I know, I know. No one wants to hear about “the good old days” and how they were better than whatever is going on now. We’re all supposed to be moving forward, making more of the time we do live in. But to my surprise, I’ve been noticing that more and more younger-than-I-am Gen Z people are nostalgic for a time period they never got to live in (that yearning is called anemoia): the 1980s. And that’s my time.
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1 month ago | 
qoshe.com | Caroline Leavitt
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1 month ago | 
psychologytoday.com | Caroline Leavitt
Recently, out of the blue, I received an email from a young woman in Ireland who had read one of my pieces about how I deal with hearing loss and the shame of it, and finally found pride and happiness in finding solutions. Her pain and terror were palpable on the page. She was terrified to get her hearing checked, even though she couldn’t hear people at work, and she had to mumble or nod as if she did.
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Feb 14, 2025 | 
psychologytoday.com | Caroline Leavitt
Hi, my name is Caroline, and I am ashamed. I admit it. I’m ashamed to even write this piece about being ashamed. And because my overriding inclination is to apologize to you all, I’m going to try, instead, to confront. Because to me, the only emotion worse than shame is fear. These last few months have been a really hard time for me.
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Aug 1, 2024 | 
qoshe.com | Caroline Leavitt
Growing up, my family was a bastion of secrets and sisters: my mom, her five sisters, and my own older sister all mostly lived within driving distance of each other in a kind of family dynasty. I learned early on that you were never allowed to say anything bad about any member of the family, no matter what they had done or said, because family was everything. My mom and her sisters, except for my sweetly naïve aunt Jean, all loved one another more than they loved their difficult husbands.
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May 31, 2024 | 
carolineleavitt.substack.com | Caroline Leavitt |Rochelle Jewell Shapiro
Caroline’s Substack is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. The Authors Caroline Leavitt's, latest novel is "Girls In Trouble" (St. Martin's Press). She is the author of seven others, including "Living Other Lives" and "Coming Back To Me." A book columnist for Boston Globe, she lives in hoboken, NJ.
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May 13, 2024 | 
qoshe.com | Caroline Leavitt
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May 3, 2024 | 
bookreporter.com | Caroline Leavitt
Sometimes, though very rarely, a novel comes along that is so full of life, love and wonder that it almost feels impossible to imagine the writer’s hand behind it --- the kind of novel that breathes with spirit, vitality and a convincing, complex range of human emotions. This year, that novel for me is Caroline Leavitt’s DAYS OF WONDER.
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Apr 24, 2024 | 
jewishbookcouncil.org | Caroline Leavitt
I’m the granddaughter of an Orthodox Jewish rabbi whom everyone loved. I never knew him, though I’m told he adored me. I was told, too, that he was a writer like me. My mother was always telling stories about him and about her life growing up in an Orthodox household, which was paradise for her. There was always music and singing at the table, she said. Always the company of her eight siblings and so much food and love. She felt safe and protected.
