The Missing Kidney

One of Oprah’s 26 Best 2025  Summer Reads: 

“Fans of Lorrie Moore can quench their thirst for witty short stories and self-aware, smart-ass narrators with these tales of love and work in New York City in the 1970s and ’80s.”

NYT Book Review: 

Brimming with scrappy characters navigating life in New York in the ‘70s and ‘80s . . .a kaleidoscopic period piece and a  timeless exploration of the complexities of human relationships.

Kirkus Starred Review: 

The best short story writer you’ve never heard of.

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Queen for a Day

“Generously unsentimental, spiritually probing and filled with piercing intimacies–DeWitt Henry.”  Founding Editor of Ploughshares, author of Sweet Marjoram: Notes and Essays

“Queen for a Day crackles with insight, energy, and New York City wit.  Maxine Rosaler’s novel in stories revolves around an odd sorority of mothers brought together–and sometimes apart–by their autistic children. ”  Eliza Factor, author of Strange Beauty.

“In ‘Queen for a Day,’ [Rosaler] has been able to tell a story that, although woven with unbearable frustrations and fears, ultimately reveals lives that grow in love, acceptance and gratitude. It is a story that each of us needs to read.”  Karen Lehrman Bloch, LA Jewish Journal

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