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Tessie and Pearlie: A Granddaughter's Story
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Tessie and Pearlie: A Granddaughter's Story Paperback - 1997

by Joy Horowitz

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  • Paperback

In their touching story, two Jewish grandmothers--Tessie and Pearlie--share their wisdom, knowledge, and recipes to die for. Still close to their immigrant past and hardened by wars, the Depression, and discrimination, they teach us about living. And dying. They are the last of a breed--a generation passing but not likely to be forgotten.

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Touchstone, May 1997. Paperback. USED Fair.
USED Fair
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  • Title Tessie and Pearlie: A Granddaughter's Story
  • Author Joy Horowitz
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Original
  • Condition USED Fair
  • Pages 280
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Touchstone, N. Y.
  • Date May 1997
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Illustrated, Table of Contents
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 547841
  • ISBN 9780684833477 / 0684833476
  • Weight 0.79 lbs (0.36 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.54 x 5.58 x 0.66 in (21.69 x 14.17 x 1.68 cm)
  • Themes
    • Ethnic Orientation: Jewish
    • Holiday: Mother's Day
    • Religious Orientation: Jewish
    • Sex & Gender: Feminine
    • Topical: Family
  • Library of Congress subjects Jews - United States, Immigrants - United States
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 96011799
  • Dewey Decimal Code B

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COMPARED TO MY GRANDMOTHERS, I'M A SHMEGEGGE.

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About the author

Joy Horowitz is a freelance journalist and former staff writer for The Los Angeles Times. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, The New Yorker, Los Angeles Magazine, and many other national publications. She graduated Harvard cum laude in 1975 and worked as a copy girl, sports writer, and investigative reporter for the Los Angeles Herald-Examiner.

After stints as an investigative producer at the local CBS-TV news station in LA and feature writer at The Los Angeles Times, she received a masters degree in Studies of Law (MSL) degree from Yale Law School in 1982.

She has been the recipient of a Ford Foundation Fellowship, a Pulitzer Prize nomination for her reporting on indoor air pollution for The Los Angeles Times, and Sunday Magazine Editors' Association award for her Los Angeles Times magazine article "Greetings from Pearlie and Tessie," which was the basis for her 1996 book, "Tessie and Pearlie: A Granddaughter's Story." In 2007, her second book, Parts Per Million: The Poisoning of Beverly Hills High School, was published and led to her being honored as an "environmental hero" in 2008 by the Environmental Relief Center in Los Angeles. That same year, she received an environmental journalism fellowship to study at the National Tropical Botanical Gardens in Hawaii.

Born in Cleveland, Ohio, Joy now lives with her husband and children and dog in Santa Monica, California.