It’s true that I wouldn’t have written the first book…

It’s true that I wouldn’t have written the first book had my sister and mother been alive. It was my way of continuing our conversation. It’s also this Jewish thing of naming and remembering people, and I think there is a sense of keeping that side of life going.

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As quoted in “England’s It Girl” by Joe Dolce in Gourmet (April 2001)

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