Nine Facts That Can Change Your Life

by Ronna Wineberg

In this stirring new collection, Ronna Wineberg explores our essential bonds to partners, children, parents, and friends. Intimacy, marriage, parenthood, adultery, divorce, and the legacies left by the past unfold in these beautifully written stories. Men and women search for happiness and love, yet face longing, disappointment, and loss. The characters in NINE FACTS THAT CAN CHANGE YOUR LIFE struggle with unexpected changes in their own lives but discover the power of kindness, the joy of connection, and the ways in which we can be renewed.

Genres: Short Stories

270 pages, Paperback

Published May 15, 2016

About the author

Ronna Wineberg is the award-winning author of four books of fiction: ON BITTERSWEET PLACE (Relegation Books), a novel, winner of the Shelf Unbound Best Indie Book Competition; and a debut collection, SECOND LANGUAGE (New Rivers Press), which won the New Rivers Press Many Voices Project Literary Competition and was the runner-up for the Reform Judaism Prize for Jewish Fiction. She is also the author of NINE FACTS THAT CAN CHANGE YOUR LIFE (Serving House Books), a story collection; and ARTIFACTS AND OTHER STORIES (Serving House Books), a new story collection, winner in Short Story Fiction for the 2024 American Fiction Award. Her stories have appeared in Michigan Quarterly Review, Confrontation, Colorado Review, South Dakota Review and elsewhere, and have been broadcast on National Public Radio. She has been awarded a scholarship in Fiction from the Bread Loaf Writers Conference, a fellowship in Fiction from the New York Foundation for the Arts, and residencies to the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts and the Ragdale Foundation. She has written blogs for Psychology Today and is the founding fiction editor of the Bellevue Literary Review. Ronna lives in New York City.

Reviews

[Laurie · Rating 5 out of 5]

It is rare that a book of stories can reflect so many personal issues that have molded one's own life as did Ronna Wineberg's "Nine Facts That Can Change Your Life." Each tale, with beautifully crafted characters, deals with themes including the challenges marriage & re-marriage, divorce, love, loss, family relationships, passage of time, mourning, loneliness and beyond. I laughed, cried and can recommend for yourself and book review discussion, BRAVA!

[David Milofsky · Rating 5 out of 5]

Terrific stories from the accomplished author of novels and stories. Those collected hete sketch the landscape of loss & loss with perception and sensitivity. Plus, they're beautully written. Highly recommended.