Losing My Sister: A Memoir - Hardcover

Judy Goldman is the author of two novels, Early Leaving and The Slow Way Back, and two books of poetry. Her work has been published in Real Simple magazine, and in many literary journals―including Kenyon Review, Southern Review, Ohio Review, Gettysburg Review, Shenandoah, Prairie Schooner―as well as in numerous anthologies. Her commentaries have aired on public radio and she teaches at writers’ conferences throughout the country. She received the Fortner Writer and Community Award for "outstanding generosity to other writers and the larger community." She’s also the recipient of the Sir Walter Raleigh Award for Fiction, the Mary Ruffin Poole Award for First Fiction, the Gerald Cable Poetry Prize, the Roanoke-Chowan Prize for Poetry, the Oscar Arnold Young Prize for Poetry, and the Zoe Kincaid Brockman Prize for Poetry. The Slow Way Back was shortlisted for the Southeastern Independent Bookseller Alliance’s Novel of the Year. Judy lives with her husband in Charlotte, North Carolina.

"Poignant."
-Kirkus

"[Goldman] beautifully renders the complexity of sibling relationships with candidness, tenderness, and sorrow in her chronicle of the immense and troubled love she has for her older sister ... Goldman's book speaks to the human ability to forgive and attain a measure of peace amid loss."
Publishers Weekly (July 9, 2012)

"This book is poignant and heartbreaking but also inspirational. It made me hug my family a little bit closer."
Jenny Lawson, author of Let s Pretend This Never Happened: A Mostly True Memoir

"Judy Goldman s Losing My Sister is a big, wise, heart-squeezing book. It puts between hard covers what I d thought inarticulable an act not unlike giving flesh to a shadow. This book will help a lot of people people who are hurting for excellent prose, and people who are just hurting."
Darin Strauss, author of Half a Life, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award

"A moving, gracefully told story of memory, sisters, and the way that love can bridge tragedy."
Caroline Leavitt, New York Times best-selling author of Picture of You

"Judy Goldman navigates the bumpy, fierce love that she shares with her sister with equal parts passion and compassion. A memorable story of love and loss."
Ann Hood, author of The Knitting Circle and the memoir Comfort: A Journey through Grief

"In this finely wrought and moving memoir, Goldman explores in exquisite detail the small and large acts of love between sisters and, indeed, among all family members. She is able to guide us through the complex emotions of death, loss, and intimacy because her own heart, as well as her writing, is as big and profound as the word love."
Sue William Silverman, author of Fearless Confessions: A Writer s Guide to Memoir

"What this book does brilliantly is suggest in the very rhythm of its telling the messiness and formlessness of relationships and grief, and the redemptive possibility of arranging some order from the chaos of existence. You cannot read this book and not be moved by its honesty and grace."
Michael Parker, author of The Watery Part of the World

"Judy Goldman deeply loved her sister. She tells us why, she tells us how, and she tells us how much loving hurts in this deeply affecting examination of a special sister bond broken many times before it is at last and forever restored."
Beth Kephart, author of Small Damages and National Book Award finalist A Slant of the Sun

"There is a great luminous beauty to her writing that delights me. Few writers in America have ever written with such passion and insight about the joys and great perils of family life." --Pat Conroy