Monkeyface: A Memoir

Monkeyface is the story of a life well-lived by an extraordinary woman, now in her 80s, who says that her greatest weakness and strength are one and the same: "You always know where you stand with me." Judith Podell tells her stories with a mixture of honesty and wit, describing growing up in New York City, the joys, and perils of parenting, succeeding in sales in the male-dominated 1970s, and the complex emotions of growing up Jewish in America.

Judy candidly describes her one true love (an...