Sharon Leder taught English, women's studies, and Jewish studies on several campuses of the State University of New York before beginning the second half of her life as a fiction writer and poet. As a teacher, she wrote books and articles on women writers, on the literature of the Holocaust, and on women in academia. An earlier draft of her novel, "The Fix," was a finalist in Merrimack Media's Outstanding Writer Award (2015). Leder resides on Cape Cod with her husband, artist and author Milton Teichman, and together they run The Teichman Art Gallery. Sharon has been inspired by the writings of other Jewish authors such as Philip Roth, Sholem Aleichem, Anzia Yezierska, Johanna Kaplan, and Myla Goldberg.
"...a moving coming-of-age story of a young Jewish girl trying to
figure out who her father really was, despite his flaws. Even
though the novel is set in the 1950s and '60s, it has never been
more relevant than it is today."-- (06/06/2017)
"...It is...a snapshot in time that reproduces an era, namely that
of first- and second-generation Jewish Americans in the post-War
era. At the same time, it is a grimly accurate depiction of the
twin diseases of addiction and codependence as told by the daughter
of a Jewish heroin addict."-- (05/03/2017)
"The Fix is extraordinary in its depiction of the havoc that
addiction of any sort wreaks on the entire family. [...] This novel
has a deep ring of truth and not only because of its compelling
writing. [...] In this way, the novel combines powerful childhood
emotions channeled into adult insights. [...] The Fix has a message
of hope and endurance and ultimate triumph..."-- (07/14/2017)
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