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Jennifer Blankfein

Jennifer Blankfein

Jennifer Gans Blankfein is a freelance marketing consultant and book reviewer. She graduated from Lehigh University with a Psychology degree and has a background in advertising. Her experience includes event coordination and fundraising along with editing a weekly, local, small business newsletter. Jennifer loves to talk about books, is an avid reader, and currently writes a book blog, Book Nation by Jen. She lives in Connecticut with her husband, two sons and black lab.

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Jennifer Blankfein

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Asha Lemmie on Writing Her Acclaimed Debut, “Fifty Words for Rain”

“Consumed by a far-flung odyssey, coming up only for a sip of water … I inhaled Fifty Words for Rain in one day.” —The New York Times Book Review —∞— "A lovely, heartrending story about love and loss, prejudice and pain, and the sometimes dangerous, always durable ties that link…
Jennifer Blankfein
December 31, 2020
Fiction

New Novel From National Book Award Winner Sigrid Nunez

What Are You Going Through (Riverhead Books) by National Book Award winner Sigrid Nunez is a perfect follow-up to her previous novel, The Friend, where a woman’s friend passes away and she takes on the responsibility of her dog. In Nunez’s latest novel, empathy is the focus when this narrator’s…
Jennifer Blankfein
December 10, 2020
Author SpotlightFiction

Young Girls Are Lured into a Life of Prostitution in “The Third Daughter” by Talia Carner

https://booktrib.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/The-Third-Daughter-2.jpg The Third Daughter by Talia Carner explores a dark time in history at the turn of the 20th century when Jews from Russia emigrated to the Americas to flee persecution, sometimes to suffer worse fates at the hands of those who would help them. I was fortunate enough to attend…
Jennifer Blankfein
November 6, 2020
Fiction

The Struggles and Joys of an Irishman’s Life Unfold in Epic Tale

https://booktrib.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/booktrib_the-hearts-invisible-furies-john-boyne.jpg There some epic novels that are ideal to tackle when you can devote a big chunk of time, and this winter could be just the time to make the commitment. Sinking your teeth into a long, well-written novel and feeling all the feels is a perfect way to spend…
Jennifer Blankfein
November 4, 2020
Author SpotlightFiction

Three Generations of Indian Women Who Defy Cultural Traditions and Expectations

https://booktrib.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/well-behaved-indian-women-saumya-dave.jpg Well-Behaved Indian Women (Berkley) by Saumya Dave is a mother-daughter story about Indian women, culture, relationships and life choices. Simran is in her 20s, pursuing a degree in psychology and has just written a book. Her parents, Nandini and Ranjit Mehta, are both doctors and are encouraging her to…
Jennifer Blankfein
September 30, 2020
Author SpotlightFiction

Julie Zuckerman on Her Linked Short Story Collection “The Book of Jeremiah”

https://booktrib.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/the-book-of-jeremiah-julie-zukerman.jpg With a healthy dose of Jewish tradition, a little Yiddish, and deep, very real characters, author Julie Zuckerman treats us to The Book of Jeremiah (Press 53), a story of a complex life well lived, spanning from the 1930s through the first decade of the 2000s. Through 13 linked stories that…
Jennifer Blankfein
August 12, 2020
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Identity Is Complicated in “The Vanishing Half”

https://booktrib.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/the-vanishing-half-brit-bennett.jpg In an outstanding second novel that's now a Good Morning America Book Club pick, author Brit Bennett tackles the topic of identity, showing that who we are on the outside is only one part of us. The Vanishing Half is the story of African American identical twins in the 1950s…
Jennifer Blankfein
August 10, 2020
Author SpotlightFiction

Charlotte McConaghy on Love, Adventure and Survival in “Migrations”

https://booktrib.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Migrations.jpg "Written in prose as gorgeous as the crystalline beauty of the Arctic ... deeply moving, haunting and, yes, important." — Caroline Leavitt, author of Pictures of You "An astounding meditation on love, trauma and the cost of survival." — Julia Fine, author of What Should Be Wild I loved the adventure…
Jennifer Blankfein
August 5, 2020

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