Channelling Rhoda: How One Writers came to write another's unpublished novel
Rhoda Lerman was known as a “writer’s writer.” Jewish, feminist, inspired by both spirituality and folklore, the critical darling was compared with Isaac Bashevis Singer and dubbed “the female Philip Roth.” Having written works of both fiction and non-fiction over a five-decade-long career, Rhoda Lerman died in 2015, leaving behind a novel she’d been working on for the previous ten years. That’s where I came in.