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TOVA REICH's most recent novel, Mother India (2018), was longlisted for the South Asia Literature Prize and a finalist for the National Jewish Book Award. Other novels include Mara, Master of the Return, The Jewish War, My Holocaust, and One Hundred Philistine Foreskins. Her stories have appeared in the Atlantic, Harper's, Ploughshares, and elsewhere. She is the recipient of the National Magazine Award for Fiction, The Edward Lewis Wallant Book Award, and other prizes. She lives on the fringe of Washington, DC.
"""Reich’s stories have a density to them: long paragraphs weighted with rich description, bricks placed carefully to build constructions capable of supporting the weight of history. But they do not make for labored reading. Rather, they build worlds worth returning to."" — Gwen E. Kirby, The New York Times Book Review ""Fearless, hysterically funny, and with the sharpest eye for truth and falsity, Tova Reich is a brilliant writer."" — Jonathan Safran Foer ""Moral, mordant, irreparably torn, Tova Reich is the conscience of the diaspora—of all diasporas—as she shows in her outstanding first collection of short fiction, The House of Love and Prayer."" — Joshua Cohen, author of Pulitzer-Prize winning novel, The Netanyahus ""Reich’s five novels . . . are volcanic satires of Jewish traditions and paradoxes, holy fools and wily wheelers and dealers. Her fervid, whirlwind yet pinpoint imagination and insights are potently distilled in her lacerating, often macabre, acidly funny short stories, collected here for the first time. . . . In these ingenious, disturbing, radically incisive, stinging, and hilarious tales, Reich wrestles with antisemitism, misogyny, deceit, profiteering, faith, and guilt. — Donna Seaman, Booklist “Reich’s trademark subjects and recognizable style fill the pages of The House of Love and Prayer and Other Stories, the publication of which marks the first time her short fiction has been gathered into book form. … This much seems certain: If Reich’s novels have provoked strong reactions in the past, this collection will fuel vivid conversations, too. Try it in your book club—if you dare.” — Moment magazine"
