Books

I'LL SEE YOU THURSDAY

“With a rueful hold on the real and the ordinary, with honesty, anger, and longing, Myra Shapiro tells here of the heart’s education: “

FOUR SUBLETS

"Shapiro’s book bravely looks at a life in rebellion against her complex but expected role: being a wife, keeping a home, and raising a family."

12 FLOORS ABOVE THE EARTH

"Whether she is asking hard questions about the flickering strangeness of sexuality, solitude, or religion, her special intelligence finds the difficult hinges and pressure points of life."

WHEN THE WORLD WALKS TOWARD YOU

“Life and beauty. Death and it’s mysterious music –the exquisite heartbreaking dailiness of days—and dreams for the women of our own histories…”

CROSSING THE STREET TO PARADIS

“…bravest, most heartbroken, and wildly funny of Shapiro’s work yet --in the 9th decade of her life not only miraculous, it’s outrageous.”