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Elissa Altman

Elissa Altman
Elissa Altman is the author of the memoirs Motherland: A Memoir of Love, Loathing, and Longing, Treyf: My Life as an Unorthodox Outlaw, Poor Man's Feast: A Love Story of Comfort, Desire, and the Art of Simple Cooking, and the James Beard Award-winning blog of the same name. A finalist for the Frank McCourt Memoir Prize, her work has been published everywhere from O: The Oprah Magazine and The Washington Postto the Wall Street Journal and Tin House.


‘Someday, She Will Become Your Job.’ On Being My Mother’s Sole Caregiver

Elissa Altman Tries to Balance Self-Care with Life's Exigencies
August 5, 2019  By Elissa Altman
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