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Eightysomething Esther Lustig tells the story of her life in a witty, touching novel that “will linger long in readers'minds and hearts” (Pioneer Press).“Widowed and in her mid-eighties, Esther checks in with her friend Lottie each morning to confirm that each has made it through the night. But there is no way that she's going to surrender to her bossy daughter, Ceely, and move into an assisted living facility, which she disdainfully calls Bingoville. In her first novel, Karmel takes an understated and disarming approach to the closing years in the life of a seemingly ordinary woman, imbuing Esther with a subtle but zingy wit and underappreciated intelligence. Esther reflects on her mother's frostiness and her mother-in-law's ‘acid tongue,'her own passion for books, the grinding disappointments and late-blooming joys of her marriage, and Ceely's harrowing incommunicado years. Brimming with keen observations yet slow to articulate them due to her body's strange new hesitations, Esther is appalled by how strangers treat her as an ‘object of concerned looks and condescension.'Karmel's novel of womanhood, the love and strife between mothers and daughters, marital dead zones, and the ba

Who reads Being Esther : A Novel?

Author

Miriam Karmel

Publisher

Minneapolis: Milkweed Editions

Published

2013

Language

EN

ISBN

9781571311054

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Literary Fiction

Rating

3.47 / 5 (330 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14