Jennifer Blankfein

A First-Person Account as the Bombs Went Off

The following is a first-person account from BookTrib contributor Jennifer Blankfein, who was in Israel about to start a dream vacation when the first bombings occurred. “OMG, it’s under attack.” My husband Eric and I have had many dinners with close friends Wendy and Spencer. We are all Reform Jews…

Jennifer BlankfeinOctober 20, 2023

Fiction Romance Romance - Featured

Author Offers Lessons in Love, Humor and — Yes — Chemistry

Earlier this month I had a wonderful conversation with Bonnie Garmus about her bestselling debut novel, Lessons In Chemistry (Doubleday), her writing and more. Lessons in Chemistry follows the story of chemist Elizabeth Zott who counts herself as anything but ordinary or "average." Elizabeth would even go so far as…

Jennifer BlankfeinOctober 13, 2022

Fiction

A Young Girl Fights For Love, Identity, Freedom and Everything She Deserves

A beautiful, and well-written story that is fast-paced, emotional and purposeful, Wild Beautiful and Free tells the story of a determined young girl of mixed race, born to an enslaved woman and a plantation owner during the Civil War. Learning about love, family and integrity from her beloved father when she was…

Jennifer BlankfeinMay 19, 2023

Fiction

Tennis Champion Returns to Court to Reclaim Her World Record

Attention Tennis Lovers! So much to love in Carrie Soto is Back! I love how the former tennis champion decides to come out of retirement to defend her title; I love her relationship with Javier Soto, her handsome and proud father and coach; I love the developing romance with a fellow…

Jennifer BlankfeinDecember 20, 2022

Thrillers

Baby Teeth Proves It’s Dangerous to Play Favorites

If you are in need of a blood chilling thriller to make your heart pound, Baby Teeth (St. Martin's Press) is for you! It is clear that author Zoje Stage mastered everything dark and suspenseful when she created Hanna, a seven year old, and the only child of Suzette and Alex.…

Jennifer BlankfeinAugust 13, 2018

Miscellany

“On Color” Prompts Us To Think About What We See

David Scott Kastan, a George M. Bodman Professor of English at Yale University and Stephen Farthing, an artist and elected member of the Royal Academy of Arts in London and Emeritus Fellow of St. Edmund Hall, the University of Oxford, have collaborated on this beautiful, and educational book about the…

Jennifer BlankfeinSeptember 24, 2018

Book Club Network Fiction

“Where the Crawdads Sing” Examines Isolation

Isolation can change a person, as readers can clearly see in Kya, the protagonist in Delia Owens’ first fiction work, Where the Crawdads Sing (G.P Putnam's Sons). The character is based on many women the author knows, and we can see how being alone can have major impact on an individual…

Jennifer BlankfeinSeptember 26, 2018

Fiction

Forging New Relationships and Redefining Home

This is Home (Atria Books) is the emotional story of Libby, a motherless teenage girl trying to create and define her home along with Quinn, a military wife who feels abandoned and is searching for belonging. The characters are searching for connection and the family they really want is not…

Jennifer BlankfeinJune 11, 2019

Fiction

Orphan Plight in “The Home for Unwanted Girls”

Joanna Goodman's The Home for Unwanted Girls (Harper) is the compelling story of Maggie (based on the author’s mother) and her family set in 1950s Canada. At that time orphanages were being converted to hospitals for financial benefit. The Quebec government saved money changing the educational facilities to mental institutions, and…

Jennifer BlankfeinSeptember 25, 2018

Fiction

“Washington Black” Paints a Fresh Slave Narrative

With history, science and creativity, Esi Edugyan’s Washington Black (Knopf) tells the story of an 11-year-old slave in Barbados and his adventurous escape to freedom. Washington Black, or Wash, brought up in the sugar cane fields, experienced more than his share of oppression, suffering and abuse. When the slave master's brother,…

Jennifer BlankfeinNovember 12, 2018

Author Spotlight Fiction Fiction - Featured

Take a Peek Behind the Curtain at Author Lisa Barr, the Original “Woman on Fire”

What an amazing ride author Lisa Barr takes us on in Woman on Fire! Idealistic, young writer Jules Roth desperately wants to work with Dan Mansfield, a well known investigative journalist who has a personal interested in a stolen piece of art. He hires her and decides to bring her in…

Jennifer BlankfeinMay 4, 2022

Jennifer Blankfein

A First-Person Account as the Bombs Went Off

Author Offers Lessons in Love, Humor and — Yes — Chemistry

Baby Teeth Proves It’s Dangerous to Play Favorites

“On Color” Prompts Us To Think About What We See

“Where the Crawdads Sing” Examines Isolation

Forging New Relationships and Redefining Home

Orphan Plight in “The Home for Unwanted Girls”

“Washington Black” Paints a Fresh Slave Narrative

Take a Peek Behind the Curtain at Author Lisa Barr, the Original “Woman on Fire”

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