The Face Tells the Secret

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Everything has been hidden from Roxanne G.-her birth name, her sister, her family history-until her "boyfriend" tries to ingratiate himself by flying in her estranged mother from Tel Aviv. That visit is the start of a tumultuous journey, in which she first learns about a profoundly disabled sister who lives in a residential community in the Galilee

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"The Face Tells the Secret is a poignant novel about moving ahead when the past won't stop bleeding into the present." -- Eileen Gonzalez, Foreword Reviews
"Jane Bernstein is an accomplished novelist, screenwriter, and essayist. Her three memoirs -- Bereft, about an older sister who was murdered in 1966, and Loving Rachel and Rachel in the World, about her daughter's struggles with intellectual disabilities -- are incisive, critically acclaimed works. The easy description of The Face might read, "middle-aged woman seeking love discovers a family secret." But the novel transcends what could have been Hallmark material by way of the author's ability to create fresh landscapes and flawed characters." -- Rege Behe, Pittsburgh City Paper

Author Bio

Jane Bernstein is the author of two novels, three memoirs, and a children's book she cowrote with her daughter. Her essays, which have appeared in The New York Times Magazine, Creative Nonfiction, The Sun, and many other journals, have been anthologized in such places as True Stories Well Told, Love You to Pieces, and Best American Sports Writing 2018. She is the recipient of two National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships and a Fulbright Fellowship and is a member of the Creative Writing Program at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.