num_pages: 224
description: These are twenty-four autobiographical story-essays, witty, vulnerable, and wise, about growing up part of a puzzled and unassimilated Orthodox Jewish family in a Michigan small-town in the 1930s and ’40s and about the wider world of marriage, children, teaching and writing after that rich beginning.
language: English
title: Leak in the Heart: Tales from a Woman's Life
titlecomplete: Leak in the Heart: Tales from a Woman's Life
genres: Judaica, Memoir, Nonfiction, Jewish
ratings_count: 73
publisher: David R. Godine, Publisher