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By Jordy Rosenberg

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Celebrity memoirs are riveting, but what about the lives of ordinary people? Barbara Rosenberg is one of them. This fictional memoir explores the quiet realities of her life as she faces a terminal illness, slipping under high doses of pain medication into a fantastical world she may never escape.

From the author of Confessions of the Fox comes a novel in which a yenta on her deathbed gives an unrepentant account of all her failures—including her child.

“A rant of comedic genius . . . [Jordy Rosenberg] writes with an enchanting command of language and satire.”—Melissa Broder, The New York Times Book Review

In a cluttered rent-controlled apartment in the middle of Manhattan, Barbara Rosenberg is terminally ill, high on opioids, and writing the story of her life. She has opinions about h...