Lynne Sharon Schwartz

The Four Questions

Ori Sherman's luminous and whimsical paintings show animals re-enacting the Passover story, as well as enjoying the ritual Seder. Along with Lynne Sharon Schwartz's lucid text, they make this book especially appealing for children. The split-frame pictures can be read upside down as well.
The Four Questions has become a perennial favorite at the holiday season.

Selected Works

Anthology

The Emergence of Memory: Conversations With W.G. Sebald
Selection of interviews with and essays on the late writer, W.G. Sebald

Children's book

The Four Questions
This classic children's book retells the Passover story. With beautiful original paintings by Ori Sherman.

Memoir

Ruined by Reading
A memoir that explores what the habit of reading means and how it can shape a life.

Novel

Leaving Brooklyn
A precocious adolescent finds unusual ways to escape Brooklyn conformity and explore the wider world.

Disturbances in the Field
A rich tapestry of tragic loss and the complicated struggle to find a path through darkness.

The Writing on the Wall
"The first fiction to weave the shock of 9/11 into ordinary lives... Worth a thousand pictures."

--Dan Wakefield

In the Family Way: an Urban Comedy
"Schwartz takes deadly aim at contemporary mores in this hilarious comedy of manners." Chicago Tribune

Short stories

Referred Pain
"No one reads us better than Lynne Sharon Schwartz. Her precise, unflinching stories discover meaning in our pain." Frederick Busch

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