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Nobody Will Tell You This But Me: A True (as Told to Me) Story
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Author:
Bess Kalb
Publisher:
Knopf Publishing Group
Date:
March 17, 2020
Bess Kalb, Emmy-nominated TV writer and New Yorker contributor, saved every voicemail her grandmother Bobby Bell ever left her. Bobby doted on Bess; Bess adored Bobby. Then, at ninety, Bobby died. But in this debut memoir, Bobby is speaking to Bess once more, in a voice as passionate as it ever was in life.
What The Reviewers Say
... kudos to Kalb, who pulls off this daring approach brilliantly, allowing readers to hear her grandmother’s inimitable voice.
If the second half of Kalb’s narrative is less affecting than the first, perhaps that is simply because everything after escape from a probable pogrom must be.
Written from the sometimes acerbic, sometimes sweet and always laser-sharp perspective of Bell.
This memoir is a quick read written in Bobby’s voice and covers Bobby’s colorful life in minute detail, as told by Kalb, in sweet quips and quotes.
