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Aug 29, 2024 | 
knowledgequest.aasl.org | Karin Greenberg |Yael Goldstein-Love |Annabel Monaghan |Liz Moore
Librarians as ReadersLibrarians like to read. I usually experience instantaneous literary bonding with my colleagues at library workshops and conferences. Our tastes span every imaginable genre. I’m always amazed at the wide range of books embraced by my fellow librarians. School libraries have distinct personalities, based largely on their curated collections. The challenge is to reach beyond our personal favorites to satisfy our eclectic group of patrons.
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Apr 26, 2024 | 
kveller.com | Yael Goldstein-Love
Sasha Vasilyuk’s “Your Presence is Mandatory” is an immersive historical novel about the Soviet response to World War II and the ways in which political narratives wreak havoc with our private ones — both those we tell ourselves and those we share with others.
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Apr 23, 2024 | 
joylandmagazine.com | Yael Goldstein-Love
I was the last one to arrive, as usual. The six other women were in their folding chairs arranged around the bright green rug with its jaunty ABC’s. The only empty seat was directly above the M, next to Ash, who was already looking angry and finishing a burrito, which was against the rules (no outside food or beverage). They hadn’t started check-ins yet. They were still chatting casually in groups of two or three and fussing with the babies.
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Dec 23, 2023 | 
literarymama.substack.com | Yael Goldstein-Love
Yael Goldstein-Love: What even is normal? literarymama.substack.com
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Sep 9, 2023 | 
nytimes.com | Yael Goldstein-Love
In a strange city, a new mother's routine errand becomes absolutely everything. I had a baby, a crumbling relationship and not one friend in the city we had moved to three weeks earlier, other than the partner I was losing. So naturally I fixated on an errand. My objective: to get my 8-month-old to a pediatrician on the other side of Washington, D.C., a town that was a puzzle to me. The stakes: for reasons I could not explain, absolutely everything. It made no sense, but nothing in my life did.
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Jul 28, 2023 | 
lithub.com | Yael Goldstein-Love
This first appeared in Lit Hub’s Craft of Writing newsletter—sign up here. You wouldn’t think you’d need to brush up on quantum mechanics to write about what it feels like to become a mother, but somehow that is exactly the situation in which I found myself five years ago. My son had nearly died during his birth, and, at home with a healthy newborn, I felt I was existing in multiple realities simultaneously.
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Jul 24, 2023 | 
slate.com | Yael Goldstein-Love
Family Damned if you do, damned if you don’t. Not long ago, my son’s preschool went into “soft lockdown.” The threat was an active shooter on UC–Berkeley’s nearby campus. For several minutes after getting this news, I sat paralyzed at my desk. I was trying not to picture exactly what no parent should picture in these circumstances—the small, beloved face contorted by fear, confusion, pain.
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Jul 18, 2023 | 
tor.com | Yael Goldstein-Love
What if the life you didn’t live was as real as the one you did? We’re thrilled to share an excerpt from The Possibilities, a mind-bending novel about time travel and parenthood by Yael Goldstein-Love—publishing with Random House on July 25. Down in the kitchen I set the pump up on the table, cleaned the flanges; they’d been sitting in the closet now for months, since I was always with Jack to nurse him. I settled down to milk myself, but nothing came.
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Jul 18, 2023 | 
tor.com | Yael Goldstein-Love
What if the life you didn’t live was as real as the one you did? We’re thrilled to share an excerpt from The Possibilities, a mind-bending novel about time travel and parenthood by Yael Goldstein-Love—publishing with Random House on July 25. Read More »
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May 1, 2023 | 
bookpassage.com | Yael Goldstein-Love
BUY THE BOOK SUBSCRIBE TO OUR E-NEWSLETTER SUPPORT OUR EVENTS PROGRAMThis event will be hosted in-person at Book Passage's Corte Madera Store. Please contact [email protected] with questions regarding events. A new mother ventures into parallel worlds to find her missing child in this mind-bending novel that turns the joys and anxieties of parenthood into an epic quest.
