Nobody Will Tell You This But Me: A True (as Told to Me) Story

Nobody Will Tell You This But Me: A True (as Told to Me) Story - Paperback

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Nobody Will Tell You This But Me: A True (as Told to Me) Story - Paperback

Nobody Will Tell You This But Me: A True (as Told to Me) Story - Paperback

by Bess Kalb
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Book Overview

NATIONAL BESTSELLER - From the New York Times bestselling author of Buffalo Fluffalo comes a heartwarming memoir that creatively reconstructs the author's late grandmother's voice to tell the story of four generations of strong women in their family.

ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: VOGUE - FORBES - BOOKPAGE - NEW YORK POST - WIRED

"I have not been as profoundly moved by a book in years." --Jodi Picoult

Even after she left home for Hollywood, Emmy-nominated TV writer Bess Kalb saved every voicemail her grandmother Bobby Bell ever left her. Bobby was a force--irrepressible, glamorous, unapologetically opinionated. 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.

Recounting both family lore and family secrets, Bobby brings us four generations of indomitable women and the men who loved them. There's Bobby's mother, who traveled solo from Belarus to America in the 1880s to escape the pogroms, and Bess's mother, a 1970s rebel who always fought against convention. But it was Bobby and Bess who always had the most powerful bond: Bobby her granddaughter's fiercest supporter, giving Bess unequivocal love, even if sometimes of the toughest kind.

Nobody Will Tell You This But Me marks the creation of a totally new, virtuosic form of memoir: a reconstruction of a beloved grandmother's words and wisdom to tell her family's story with equal parts poignancy and hilarity.
ISBN9780525563822
Author Bess Kalb
PublisherVintage
GenreBiography, Relationships, and Humor & comedy
FormatPaperback
PublishedApril 2021
LanguageENG- English
Pages224
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

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Biography & Autobiography Family & Relationships Humor Nonfiction

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Nobody Will Tell You This But Me: A True (as Told to Me) Story - Paperback

Nobody Will Tell You This But Me: A True (as Told to Me) Story - Paperback

By Bess Kalb

About Bess Kalb

Bess Kalb is an Emmy-nominated comedy writer, and the bestselling author of Buffalo Fluffalo illustrated by Erin Kraan and Nobody Will Tell You This but Me, which was a New York Times Editor's Choice selection. She wrote for eight years on Jimmy Kimmel Live! and has written for the Emmy Awards, the Academy Awards, and the 2020 Democratic National Convention. She is the head writer and executive producer of the WGA Award-nominated Yearly Departed, an Amazon Comedy Special, and is currently adapting Nobody Will Tell You This but Me into a feature film with Sight Unseen Pictures. She lives with her husband and two boys in Brooklyn.

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