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Jessica Berger Gross

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New York City, The United States

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Fiction, Memoir

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Jessica Berger Gross is the author of the memoir Estranged: Leaving Family and Finding Home. Her essays have appeared in The New York Times Magazine, The Cut, Longreads and many more. She lives in Maine with her husband and teenage son. Hazel Says No, coming June 2025 from Hanover Square Press/HarperCollins, is her first novel.

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	Hazel Says No 3.72 avg rating — 4,233 ratings — published 2025 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Estranged: Leaving Family and Finding Home 3.39 avg rating — 1,037 ratings — published 2017 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	enLIGHTened: How I Lost 40 Pounds with a Yoga Mat, Fresh Pineapples, and a Beagle Pointer 3.44 avg rating — 507 ratings — published 2009 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	About What Was Lost: Twenty Writers on Miscarriage, Healing, and Hope 4.09 avg rating — 258 ratings — published 2006 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	It's a Girl: Women Writers on Raising Daughters by Andrea J. Buchanan (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Carolyn Alessio (Contributor), Kim Fischer (Contributor) 3.83 avg rating — 121 ratings — published 2006 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Hazel sagt Nein: Roman. Wenn ein Nein das Leben aller verändert. Bookclub-Fiction mit Nachhall by Jessica Berger Gross (Goodreads Author), Angela Koonen (Translator) 3.60 avg rating — 5 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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“Still, I’ve come to believe there are times when a family is so broken it can’t be put back together, or mended — times when the repair job isn’t worth the price. But that assessment isn’t to be made lightly, and cannot be made without calling into question one’s own essential goodness. Breaking from your parents is a selfish move, but sometimes selfishness is justified. What I know is this: When I made the decision to stop speaking to my parents, I made the decision to be happy.”
― Jessica Berger Gross, Estranged

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“Maimonides, the medieval writer, says you can try three times for a reconciliation before giving up and that’s enough, then you can stop.”
― Jessica Berger Gross, Estranged

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“I am not simply missing one child who never grew, but two of them. I always know how old they'd be. What I do not know is who I might have been, had I become their mother.”
― Jessica Berger Gross, About What Was Lost: Twenty Writers on Miscarriage, Healing, and Hope

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