Tova Mirvis

Tova Mirvis is the author of The Book of Separation, a memoir, which was a New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice and was excerpted in The New York Times Modern Love column. She is also the author of three novels, Visible City, The Outside World and The Ladies Auxiliary which was a national bestseller. Her essays have appeared in publications such as the Boston Globe Magazine, The Washington Post, Real Simple and Psychology today and her fiction has been broadcast on National Public Radio.

Tova can be found at tovamirvis.com.

Charitable Organization: Feeding America

Praise

“An intimate tale of departure….[Tova Mirvis] movingly conveys the heartache that accompanies the abandonment of one way of life in search of another.”—The New York Times

 “Capable of both wry humor and darkly apt turns of phrase, Mirvis is a gifted writer reflecting on her identity: first through the prism of organized religion, then through a self-charted life.”—Chicago Tribune

“A memoir from an accomplished novelist is always a gift, but this one stands out. When you tell me it’s about growing up in and marrying within the Orthodox Jewish culture, I’m hooked–but when you tell me it’s some of the best writing I’ve seen about growing up, evolving your beliefs and finding your own way outside of the stories you’ve been told—and have told yourself—then I’m blown away, and I was.” –New York Times Writer KJ Dell Antonia

 “Tova Mirvis has already established herself as a first-rate novelist with The Ladies Auxiliary, The Outside World, and Visible City. With The Book of Separation: A Memoir, Mirvis shifts genres, reveals some of the autobiographical germs of her fiction, and compellingly chronicles the process of separating from Orthodoxy…The respect for intra-Jewish difference that Mirvis models for her children—and for readers—is a precious gift to the Jewish literary world…Beautiful and poignant.”—Lilith Magazine